Regency Wednesday: Is our Sun falling silent? (Frost Fair part 2)

BBC had this great article on Is our Sun falling silent? where they discussed the inactivity of the sun. Pretty interesting, in and of itself, but what I found fascinating was the bit on how a previously recorded period of inactivity, the Maunder Minimum, created the original frost fairs.

During the latter half of the 17th Century, the Sun went through an extremely quiet phase - a period called the Maunder Minimum.

And I'm thinking, that if we go through this again, sure it'll be cold but think...