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With all the talk about climate change and rising temperatures, it might be hard to imagine a “Little Ice Age” in the future. But NASA’s forecast for solar activity over the next decade could mean we’re in store for a cool-down.

The sun develops spots that are about the size of earth, and they change in intensity and number over time.

According to NASA, these sunspots provide a standard gauge of solar activity. That activity rises and falls in 11-year cycles. The next one begins this year, and the current forecast calls for the weakest solar activity in the last 200 years.

Astrophysicist Dr. Jeff Zweerink of “Reasons to Believe” spoke with CBN News about the correlation between sunspots and weather on Earth.

“If it continues to drop, one thing we do know is that sunspots, they look like dark spots on the sun, so you’d initially think, ‘Oh, maybe that’s because there’s less radiation given off’,” he said.

“It turns out because of the magnetic fields going on in there, the sunspots actually emit more radiation. And so if there are fewer sunspots, we’re receiving less sunlight from the sun,” Zweerink continued.

“And so you would expect to see a continual decline in temperatures – that things might get colder over the next 10 or 15 years,” he said.

According to The New American, more and more scientists believe this lower solar cycle could spark a lengthy period of minimum solar activity leading to cooler temperatures on Earth.

It’s happened before. From the mid-1600s to the early 1700s, the sun experienced a period of low solar activity known as the Maunder Minimum. It corresponded to a time on Earth known as the “Little Ice Age.”

“We know from historical records, and these are very early observations of the sun, that there were very few of these sunspots for very long periods, from about 1650 until 1715,” Dr. Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen of the Danish Space Institute told CBN News.

“And this particular period of low solar activity also correlates with a period where the climate at least in most of Europe and other places of the world was very cold,” he continued.

“So what they noticed is primarily in Europe, where they were taking a lot of these measurements, what they found is that the temperatures were really cold,” said Zweerink.

It was also very cold in North America. Colonial art often shows deep snows and ice-filled rivers during the winters.

Zweerink says the bottom line is if the sunspot activity continues to drop off as expected, we’re going to experience cooler weather for a while.

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Parishioners at a California church where NBA legend Kobe Bryant worshiped Sunday morning two hours before he perished in a fiery helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others in Calabasas, California, were so “stunned” when they got news of his death they could only respond initially with “silence.”

Julie Hermes, a spokeswoman for Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach told the Daily Mail that Bryant worshiped there on Sunday morning before his tragic end. On Sunday, she said, Bryant slipped in at the back of the service as usual and left early to avoid disturbing the other parishioners.

“He attended the 7 a.m. mass prior to going to the Orange County John Wayne Airport,” Hermes told the publication.

“I imagine he went straight to the airport, because the mass was 7 to 8 a.m. I’m told generally 7 a.m. was his mass. He was very discreet. He would come in and stay at the back, and his family too, and then he would usually leave a little earlier prior to the very end of the service,” she continued. “He was very much loved at the church, and he was very devout, very dedicated to his faith.”

A call for a downed helicopter and brush fire in Calabasas went out at 9:47 a.m. local time on Sunday, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said.

Hermes said that when parishioners at the church heard about Bryant’s death they were in shock. She said she attended the first mass at the church in the aftermath of the tragedy and it was difficult.

“I went to the 12 p.m. mass that was dedicated to him. Every mass since has been dedicated to Kobe and the families of all the victims,” Hermes said.

“Everybody was stunned. It was like silence. Everybody was in shock. It was very still. When the 12 p.m. mass ended, because that was the first mass after anybody knew, everybody walked out in silence and were glued to their cell phones looking up any information they could get online,” she continued.

“Our parishioners knew him not just from church but from the community, because Kobe was a great part of this community. That’s how I know him too. I live very close to him in Newport Coast. He was a like regular guy, you wouldn’t know he was a celebrity. He would go out on his own without bodyguards,” she explained.

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A British woman, who was given hormone blockers and opposite sex hormones as part of a gender transition, is suing the clinic that gave her the drugs, arguing she was medically harmed.

As reported by the U.K. Times, Keira Bell, 23, a female who is among the increasingly visible chorus of what are known as “detransitioners” — persons who once lived and identified as transgender and underwent experimental medical regimens to alter their bodies and now regret it — is mounting a legal challenge against the lone gender clinic in the U.K., the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Trust in London.

Bell, who was given the puberty-suppressing drugs and cross-sex hormones during her mid-teens, now says she found the experience of gender-transitioning traumatic and that the clinic’s approach to treating children is not lawful because the risks are not adequately explained and minors are incapable of giving consent to such interventions.

“She now very seriously regrets the process and feels that the way it was handled and her involvement in it was not appropriate,” Bell’s lawyer, Jeremy Hyam, told the U.K.’s highest court last week during the hearing.

Bell said in a statement after the proceedings concluded that she does not believe “that children and young people can consent to the use of powerful and experimental hormone drugs like I did.”

“The treatment needs to change so that it does not put young people, like me, on a torturous and unnecessary path that is permanent and life-changing.”

Bell, who is currently an unemployed IT engineer from Cambridge, has become the most prominent claimant in a case now being adjudicated as to whether young people can give consent to such life and body-altering medical practices amid ongoing and intensifying debate over transgender ideology, particularly as it relates to medical care and the Gender Recognition Act.

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