Fimbulwinter comes!

Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has ‘gone to sleep’ and say it could cause temperatures to plunge

According to the Daily Mail (yeah…), the sunspot cycle has apparently crashed, and we’re on our way to a Maunder Minimum like the kind that led to the Little Ice Age a few hundred years ago… when the Thames would freeze solid in winter. If true (*if*), it should provide some entertaining decades as planetary temperatures collapse and ecosystems shift.

Of course, it might also lead to armies of ice giants stomping across the polar parts of the world, and fire giants stomping around the equatorial bits. Then all y’all will better repent yer blasphemous ways and take up arms at the last defense and prepare to partake of your defeat and die  in good company.

Or maybe, y’know, it’s just one of them things.