Agreed. The part you misunderstood is that the mini-ice age doesn't come from cooling, but rather from a lack of convection currents -- it's a result of warmin

Agreed. The part you misunderstood is that the mini-ice age doesn't come from cooling, but rather from a lack of convection currents -- it's a result of warming. The same is true of extreme weather; we're getting raftloads of snow out here in the Pacific NW, and considerably colder than usual weather; although it's most certainly not proof, it is consistent with what the weather models predict are side effects of global warming: more extreme weather. I read a few articles about scientist theories relating to solar activity and global cooling; it's interesting and a bit worrisome to think that we might be getting less heat from the sun, and yet warming anyway. :/