So you made it through Sunspots 101

[ The sun is blank, again. ]

NASA says that the lack of solar activity is completely normal. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing lull in sunspot number is well within historic norms for the solar cycle." - David Hathaway solar physicist

"The sun is now near the low point of its 11-year activity cycle," says Hathaway. "We call this 'Solar Minimum.' It is the period of quiet that separates one Solar Max from another."

The problems with solar minimums is sometimes they last a long time. The Maunder minimum lasted from 1645 to 1715. This period of low sunspot activity coincided with the Little Ice Age.

So we might want to think about starting some Global Warming.