Solar activity declining faster than any time in 10,000 years?? Scientists say may be entering *cold* period

Yesterday the BBC reported that an analysis of ice-cores, which hold a long-term record of solar activity, suggests our sun's activity is declining faster than has been seen in 10,000 years.

Solar activity seems to be linked to the number of sunspots, which have been recorded for about 400 years. The number of spots oscillates in a well-known rhythm of highs and lows with a period of 22 years or so.  From this known record, right now the sun should be near peak activity, but very few sunspots are actually being seen.

In fact the last time solar activity was this low was around 1600 A.D.--a period that saw record-cold temperatures on earth, called the Little Ice Age. 

"I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," said one scientist. Dozens of papers have been published in the last two months suggesting that based on what we're seeing on the sun, we're in for a major, long-term cold spell.

But remember, citizen:  Global warming is settled science.  Oh, and it's caused by humans, cuz y'all drive and fly way too much.

Of course you know what'll happen next:  The warm-mongers will claim that they *really were* right about humans causing Globull Worming, but the dumb ol' sun--unpredictably--did something totally unexpected and wrecked their otherwise-perfect predictions.

Count on that one.  You can see that one coming a mile away.