Well under normal circumstances, yes, that’d be true for a single solar cycle.

But that’s not the problem, we’re looking at an extended run of FIVE long-frequency, low-amplitude solar cycles, and NASA found in a 2001 study that such a “grand minimum” will commence a real miniature ice age.

The reason is the severity of continental winters aren’t softened by oceanic moist warm air currents borne by strong solar-driven winds. Successive low-amplitude solar cycles yield more globe-cooling La Ninas & more cloud cover.

see: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/shindell_06/

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20011206/

Better yet, data from mud & ice core samples show that these bi- & tri-centennial slumps in solar activity cause significant declines in ocean and plant productivity (see also: Tim Patterson’s mud core & Don Easterbrook’s ice core studies that show high correlations with solar cycles, both 11-year and grand minima)

Current supporting data for an early onset of a solar grand minimum:

Sunspot motion speed lowest in centuries, portent of very weak SC 25.
http://www.physorg.com/news66581392.html

Cumulative spotless days accumulating faster than 19th century intercycle transits:
http://i31.tinypic.com/2emjrqa.jpg

There is of course other data, but these are two of the more forward-looking trend analyses.

500 years ago, Columbus KNEW it was Round- it was the diameter of the globe they got wrong. Even though the diameter had been figured fairly close almost 2000 years earlier, by the Greeks.

I am NOT looking forward to -40 weather in Southern Ontario- in October.

What are the chances of an Ice Age?

KAY
Not as many as you’d think. Humans, for the most part, don’t have a clue. Don’t want one, either. They’re happy. They think they’ve got a pretty good bead on things.

EDWARDS
Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.

KAY
A person is smart. People are dumb. Everything they’ve ever “known” has been proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew it was flat.
Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.

http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=men_in_black