"Ouroboros_Rex" wrote
Cite, please.

A plot of sunspots latitudes over the solar cycle shows that they tend
to form at higher latitudes first, and then slowly extend to the equatorial
region. Since they form both above and below the equator, the plot looks
like two butterfly wings, and hence is referred to as the sunspot
"butterfly" diagram.

It results from the fact that the solar magnetic field is somewhat closer
to the surface near the polls and the fact that the higher latitudes tend to
rotate faster than the equatorial region. Faster rotation means more
winding of the ambient magnetic field in the plasma and hence earlier
magnetic short circuits (sunspots) and reconnection events (flares).

However, it is entirely irrelevant which cycle the spots belong to - they
could be the old cycle or the new one.

CATO's claim was that the earth is cooling because there were no sunspots
being generated.

Well he is lying. As the current crop of sunspots, and the ones in
February, January and December clearly show.

CATO is just another LLLibertarian LLLiar.