It seems that after 400 years we might be entering a new phase of diminished solar activity, potentially a repetition of the Maunder Minimum from the 17. century or at least the Dalton Minimum. The Modern Maximum that lasted until about 2015 is now beyond us.

Tag for the next decades.

Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

The Maunder Minimum came with the Little Ice Age in the 17. century and sunspot activity is weakly correlated with volcanic activity on earth: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/st07500u.html

Hm. Interesting. The NASA link does a nice job of explaining things succinctly. Will check out the Wikipedia link later. Watching UFC: St.Louis at the moment. :)

Finally some deserved rest for the turtle.

Ok. What exactly does that mean? Are we all going to DIE DIE DIE?!

So the greenhouse effect will be less problematic?

I am waiting for the flat earth society to put out there numbers and predicitons... NOT, arf!

As far as I'm aware of, we still know relatively little about what causes the longer solar cycles (the 11-year cycle is apparently cause by the polarity of the sun's magnetic field flipping about every 11 years).

Everything indicates we are entering in a new minimum which can result in a mini ice age.

Well of course not. The newer models of greenhouse effect shows that the climate is actually cooling because of it.

Seems like it will have little impact.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/09/the-imminent-mini-ice-age-myth-is-back-and-its-still-wrong