The cold is upon us! Studies revealed that a mini ice age would take its toll on Earth in 2030, and it is said to last for ten years.

The reason? Decrease in solar activity causing the temperatures to fall.

The team that was led by Professor Valentina Zharkova, who's worked together with Dr. Helen Popova, of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dr. Sergei Zarkhov, of Hull University, and Professor Simon Shepherd, of Bradford University, said they created a newer, more accurate model to monitor and predict the sun's activity, Yahoo News reported.

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The findings were presented at the National Astronomy Meeting at Llandudno in Wales. It stated that two magnetic heat waves were used that would either reinforce one another to create a high activity or to create calm intervals by cancelling out the other.

The result: Two waves, in cycle 26, mirrored each other, peaking at the same time, in sun's opposing hemispheres.

Professor Zharkova said that their predictions gave them a 97-percent accuracy. She further explained that there will be lesser sun spots in the next two solar cyles.

The wave patterns showed that there will be fewer sun spots in Cycle 25 (peaking at 2020), and a notable reduced solar activity in Cycle 26 (peaking from 2030 - 2040), according to The Northern Star's report.

In 1843, scientists learned that in every 10-12 years, the sun's activity fluctuates. This mini ice age isn't the Earth's first time.

In 1894, Edward Walter Maunder said that the sun had fewer spots between years 1645 to 1715, the time when the little ice age called "Maunder Minimum" happened. Thames River in England froze in winter that's why Vikings had to leave the Greenland, and Northern America recorded the coldest winter.

Astronomer John Allen Eddy examined in 1976 the evidence of the same peaceful periods that happened in 1450 to 1540. To honor the 19th-century German scientist Gustav Spörer, who earlier made a significant observation on the sun's irregular activity, he named the phenomenon as Spörer minimum.

Meanwhile, this mechanism doesn't clearly explain how the change in the sun's activity affects the living planet's climate. According to Britannica, even if it's suggestive, the occurrence wherein the sunspot decreases can produce cooling is yet to be proven.

If real though, this occurrence can be an indication that the Bright Star can affect the Earth's climate even with its slightest irregular activity.

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