Why Global Warming Will Be Far Worse, Far Sooner, Than Forecasts Predict

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2. Might become a matter of what comes first.

The recent polar change in the sun could possibly lead to a mini ice age.

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Sun's Magnetic Field to Reverse: Historically Low Activity.

Dr Matthew Penn from the national solar observatory says the sunspot cycle may disappear altogether in the next 10 years.

“If this trend continues, there will be almost no spots in Cycle 25, and we might be going into another Maunder Minimum,” he said.

If this were the case little solar activity would occur at all. The maunder minimum occurred during the same time period when sunspots became extremely rare. This forced a mini ice age over Europe, Russia, and North America causing the Thames river in London to freeze over.

Dr Penn says there is some research tying lack of sunspots to local weather events. However, there is not a definite tie between a "mini ice age" and lack of solar activity.

Read more: http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/weather/weather_blogs/suns-magnetic-field-to-reverse-historically-low-sunspots#ixzz2dqGU3o9G

Period referred to was 17th century.