Solar Activity Drops to 100 Year Low September 21, 2013
Prompting comparisons with the Maunder Minimum. “The current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a century,” says this article in India Times.
“Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest period in the last millennium.”