This article in DailyTech reports the have been no sunspots in the entire month of August. The last time this happened, a whole month without sunspots, was in 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since the 1700s.
Prolonged periods of solar quiescence tend to coincide with cold periods. One such, the Maunder Minimum, is viewed as a contributing cause of the so-called "little ice age" that is is roughly dated from 1600 to 1850.
Things aren't looking good for the global warming folks. Sol and Gaia just don't seem to want to cooperate.
