How's That Global Warming Thing Going?

Okay, last year was so cold that it wiped out a century of global warming. And the sun is the least active that has ever been recorded.

The sun normally experiences 11-year-cycles between periods of great activity and lesser activity.

But, Smith said, the Ulysses mission's recent results, published in Geophysical Research Letters, show that "we are in a period of minimal activity that has stretched on longer than anyone anticipated."

Bundle up!