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We are also entering a solar minimum, the last one was linked to a “little ice age” in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

I don’t know how climate change will affect this. But we might be in for an interesting few years.

No we just left a minimum, there’s been sunspots of opposite polarity appearing since early 2019 if memory serves - round about that timeframe anyway but the end of the minimum wasn’t confirmed until earlier in 2020.

It wasn’t a Maunder Minimum.

For the next 4 years or so we’ll proceed to maximum then back down to the next minimum thereafter.

> The Maunder Minimum occurred with a much longer period of lower-than-average European temperatures which is likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic activity.[citation needed]

There are literally two citations immediately following that sentence in the Wikipedia article.

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