Arctic Icepack Fails, All Hands Lost on Board SS Maunder Minimum

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We seems to be wandering away from the Maunder Minimum:
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2012 total: 0 days (0%)
2011 total: 2 days (<1 br="br"> 2010 total: 51 days (14%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
Since 2004: 821 days
Typical Solar Min: 486 days
Update 18 Aug 2012

I wonder if it is cheaper for the Chinese to ships goods via rail across the Eurasian land mass, or go by sea?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/us-china-environment-idUSBRE87G0P820120817

The wandering Chinese pulled into port in Iceland, across the Arctic Circle route, as the Maunder Minimum Mongers have experienced a complete meltdown..