From a story in the Wall Street Journal:

Something is up with the sun.

Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync.

Mini-ice and the Maunder minimum on the way. But even if we might freeze for a century or two, the soot, grime and grit already in the atmosphere will get us in the end. See the whole story just in case you thought these climate fundamentalists were about to give up.