Interesting to see a sun spot. We (we as in the human race, earth, everything in the solar system) just went way longer than usual with very few of them. It would have been interesting to see if there was a new long-lasting solar minimum instead of the 11 year cycles for a while. As it is the 11 year cycle rule can be safely trashed and instead make into a 10-14 year cycle rule or something along those lines.
Also... the one thing that has the biggest influence on the Earth's climate and weather isn't carbon emissions, melting glaciers making rising seas changing ocean currents, or anything global warming related. Its radiation from the sun. They say during a solar minimum there is actually less radiation coming from the sun than at maximum (which seems unintuitive because a sun covered with cool spots would be less bright, right? Apparently the rest of the sun emits more radiation to more than make up for the sun spots). Some people blame the "little ice age" on the sun's extended solar minimum that occurred around the same time. Our sun just seemed like it might go into another extended minimum... if it had would it have effectively wiped out all the global warming on earth? If global warming is real, and the sun starts back up again, are we going to be hit with a double-wammy? One of these things, we're gunna find out I think.
