By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 11 June 2008
09:28 am ET
The sun's surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years, and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the sun's 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to the Little Ice Age of the 17th century.
Could a new sunspot drought plunge us into another decades-long cold spell?
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no, not really.
More on the Maunder Minimum HERE.
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