Have the Met Office let the cat out of the bag concerning the influence of solar activity on the Earth's climate at long last?

FT Weekend Magazine 25/26 June: Feeling the heat? Clive Cookson goes inside the Met Office. | Climate Realists

" We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50% of the variability from year to year", says Scaife. With solar physicists predicting a long-term reduction in the intensity of the solar cycle - and possibly its complete disappearance for a few decades, as happened during the so-called Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 this could be an ominous signal for icy winters ahead, despite global warming.