PARTING SHOT: On its way over the sun's western limb on Oct. 31st, sunspot 1029 unleashed a C-class solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory photographed the billion-ton CME billowing past Mercury:

The blast reinforces sunspot's 1029's position as the most active sunspot of 2009. Last week alone, the sunspot produced ten C-class solar flares, more than tripling the number of flares in the previous 10 months. Sunspot 1029 is a member of long-overdue Solar Cycle 24. Is it also a herald of more active times to come? Stay tuned.

I believe frequent solar flares will reduce mass of the sun and thereby gravitational field which is keeping earth in the sun's orbit will reduce as well. Eventually the earth will move farther from sun than now. This will lower average temperature of the earth. So there is a possibility of earth to be drawn in to ICE AGE.