Sun showing lowest activity levels since early 1900s

This article talks about the surprising, and perhaps somewhat alarming, lack of sunspots observed on the Sun in the last couple of years. Despite all the blather in the media about global warming, this article points out that perhaps we had better be scared, perhaps very scared, about another "little Ice Age". As the article says:

"When the sun is active, it's not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month. Every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers briefly drop near zero. Normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins. But this year, the start of a new cycle, the sun has been eerily quiet.

The first seven months averaged a sunspot count of only three and in August there were no sunspots at all — zero — something that has not occurred since 1913.

According to the publication Daily Tech, in the past 1,000 years, three previous such events — what are called the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums — have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called the Little Ice Age (1500-1750)."

But We'll see if sunspot activity comes back to normal level or if we're in for some global cooling...