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Nicholas Marty17-Jan-14 2:07
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Dalek Dave17-Jan-14 3:06
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The Maunder Minimum was an event that happened back between 1645 and 1715.
There have been other minima, but not called Maunder.
(Oort, Wolf, Sporor and Dalton).

We are currently entering A solar minimum, but certainly not the Maunder Minimum.

It could, however, lead to, as you say, a new, second, Little Ice Age, similar to the one that ran between 1550 and 1850, which, co-incidentally, came straight after the Mediaeval Warm Period.

I am one who like to look at data rather than make up a model based on what I want to happen for the purposes of funding, and so I can categorically state that no-one knows for sure what will happen but that it is at the very least possible, and given the data and cyclical nature of these things, probable that the Earth will be entering a cold period. Whether it turns out to be an Ice Age or not is a different matter.
(Although we are actually still IN an ice age).
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Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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