So this just showed up in the news. The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting that the climate will be getting cooler for the next fifty years. They use the Sun and ocean temperatures to get their predictions.
Last year, the Almanac correctly predicted "above-normal" snowfall in the Northeast — an understatement — and below-normal snowfall in the mid-Atlantic states.
Stupid me, I thrown out all my winter clothes because of the coming Global Warming :)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-09-09-farmers-almanac_N.htm
Deron.