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Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by sveme on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:46AM (#21115261)
The role of the sunspot cycle on the Maunder minimum seems to be vastly overstated, at least according to wikipedia.

Furthermore, this post actually mentions that there is no indication that we will hit anything remotely related to that sunspot cycle.

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Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by chrisco255 on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:18PM (#21116963)
We're not that accurate at predicting which cycle will start a grand minimum and we don't know for sure how many cycles a minimum will last for. This is a cutting edge research area. We know that a deep minimum is due and will happen this century. Some suggest cycle 25. Some suggest 26 as the start of it.

Sunspots themselves are not the big factor on climate, it's cosmic rays (which are inversely correlated) and clouds: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171219091320.h...

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