Would Solar Lull Snuff Climate Action? - NYTimes.com

it’s worth considering the implications for climate and energy policy of a possible protracted downturn in the flow of energy to the Earth.

The last long lull in solar activity of this sort, the Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715, was accompanied (cause and effect are still not fully clear) [If the science is settled, why isn't the cause and effect clear?]  by a substantial and sustained chill (particularly in winter) that led, among other things to the “frost fairs” on the frozen Thames River in London...