Global Cooling? The Sun Has Been Unusually Inactive

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"In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period, from approximately 1650 to 1700, occurred during the middle of a little ice age on Earth that lasted from as early as the mid-15th century to as late as the mid-19th century"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609124551.htm