Richard Harrison, who is the lead of space physics at a laboratory in Oxfordshire, England is worried because our Sun appears to be falling asleep and a mini ice age could be on the way for the Earth.

Scientists Believe Sun is 'Falling Asleep' and Mini Ice Age on Way He states that he has been a solar physicist for nearly three decades, and he has never saw the sun do anything quite like what it is doing now. The Sun is very inactive, so much so that one would have to go back around 100 years to compare the difference. Such a solar lull is totally baffling to other scientists as well because the Sun should be full of activity right now.
It seems that the Sun’s activity might be dropping faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years. It had hit a solar maximum, the point in...
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