A new ice age to look forward to? Can it be true? This is the best news I have heard all year. I was half awake during the night this week, listening to the radio when the news item came on. I thought at first I was dreaming, but no. It turns out scientists from the University of Northumbria have been monitoring solar activity and have concluded that we are in for what you might cautiously describe as a bit of a dip, temperature wise.
The science sounds suitably complicated but in essence it seems the sun has her highs and lows, like the rest of us. When she’s on the up — as she has been recently, with a great deal of magnetic activity