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Without being tarred with the same brush as Piers Corbin, could this
current cooler winter have something to do with the lack of sun spot
activity?

Currently there are NO sunspots on our sun today (05/01/09), and 2008
was the least active year since 1900.

Must be having some effect as the Sun had the least no of sunspots in 2008
for nearly 100 years. The next 12 months will be interesting to see if solar
cycle 24 really kicks off or not. Solar wind has also been lowest recorded
in the last 50 years - plus the Alaskian volcanoes last year..

John