Sunspot Minimum or "Is the sun going to sleep?"

[JesseK]

There was a Science channel special on some abstracticians who were postulating how advanced intelligent lifeforms might survive in space once all of the stars burned out in billions of years. It was a very dismal existence indeed. They didn't even think about the lack of light that would be like driving down a dark road with no headlights on as the civilisations traveled from place to place. ::shudder::

I think we're on a role with Energy Conservation in general, and it'd be a shame if everything got cooler for a couple of decades. If you combine some NASA photos with findings (such as evidence that ice used to be at the top of a 1000-ft plateau in Madagascar) that support the 'Snowball Earth' theory, it seems logical that climate change is happening and that it can have huge ramifications. Yet I fear the uneducated masses will use a colder year that results from a docile sunspot maximum season as evidence that climate change is a myth.