[QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Maunder Minimum Predicted

[Bill]

New data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics 
division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico, 
may suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn't 
happened in hundreds of years.
The new findings came from studies that found a missing jet stream in 
the solar interior, fading sunspots on the sun's visible surface, and 
changes in the corona and near the poles - all of which point towards 
declining solar activity at a time when our closest star should be 
showing signs of increasing activity.
There are some scientists at the conference believe that the current 
findings from the studies mean that we are at the beginning of a Maunder 
Minimum, a decades long period of low solar activity.

http://losangeles.ibtimes.com/articles/162919/20110614/solar-flare-ice-age-global-warming-sun.htm