This photo is causing a stir among some solar scientists. It's a photo of the sun today, and the sun displays a blank surface, devoid of sunspot activity.
Sunspot activity has been extraordinarily low, and some believe it's a sign we're entering a major cooling period, similar to or worse than "Little Ice Age," which ended about two hundred years ago. Scientist and former astronaut Dr. Philip Chapman called the image of a blank sun "the scariest photo I have seen on the internet. "
Canada's National Post is following the story and writes "if Solar Cycle 24 becomes a household term, your lifestyle could be taking a dramatic turn for the worse." Canada, on the upper end of the North American grain belt, could see its agricultural output affected, and perhaps decimated, by another Ice Age.
There is a difference of opinion on sunspot activity, and I encourage you to do your own investigation. Search "solar cycle 24."
And here's a rebuttal to Chapman's correlation of sunspot activity to global temperature. Thanks to John for sending that in.