The interesting thing is there is always this talk of the Earth returning to an "Ice Age" when the more realistic characterization of our current climate would be that we're experiencing a short term "Warm Age"
One of the more terrifying hypothesis' of the solar cycle disapearing is that the magnetic cycle that drives sun-spot activity could be the primary reason why the Earth goes into these warm periods, and if it disapeared we would be forced to return to the more normal state of being in an Ice Age.
Earlier this year I saw someone claim that the rate of change of global warming is no where near to being as quick as the rate of change we have seen from global cooling in the past; where global warming might mean we will see a 1 degree rise in temperatures in a century, global cooling has had a 5 degree drop in as little as 20 years.
