The Sun Has Changed

Monckton:Temperature Change and CO2 Change - A Scientific Briefing

THE CHIEF REASON for skepticism at the official position on "global warming" is the overwhelming weight of evidence that the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, prodigiously exaggerates both the supposed causes and the imagined consequences of anthropogenic "global warming"; that too many of the exaggerations can be demonstrated to have been deliberate; and that the IPCC and other official sources have continued to rely even upon those exaggerations that have been definitively demonstrated in the literature to have been deliberate.

And then there is this ...

Danger ahead as the Sun goes quiet

THE sun's ability to shield the solar system from harmful cosmic rays could falter in the early 2020s, just in time to threaten the health of NASA astronauts as they return to the moon.

As well as the 11-year cycle of sunspots and solar flares, the sun's activity experiences longer-term shifts lasting several decades. The sun is currently in a long-term high, having been relatively active for nearly a century, but it is not known when this will end.

The modern solar maximum, that's a term you probably hadn't heard in the last years, have you, has ended, that appears certain. Personally, I think the change seen in October 2005 portended the onset of a state change in the sun. But you are free to have your own opinions, that is what science is supposed to be. At least until we have provable fact to the contrary. Consensus in science is just so much meaningless gibberish.