Climate Change for a Speculative Fiction Novel?

[Mikira]

As some of you know I'm an aspiring writer. And that I've been studying Climate Change for a duel purpose. That of furthering my knowledge on the subject and to be able to write a semi-plausible scenario of what's happening on Earth. (I won't go into details about my plot, so don't bother asking about it.)

Now for my questions. (Now please try and wrap your head around the ideas of the questions before answering.)

One more preface, I've read about the Milankovitch cycle and I really don't feel it holds water. I won't get into my thinking as to why in this question.

As for what I want to get opinions and answers to is this:

Could you envision the sun going into a dormant state? (I'm not talking about a dead sun, I'm talking about it going into a long period of solar hibernation, where one it goes into a major period of solar minimum {longer then the Maunder Minimum.} and two gives off even less solar energy then it's giving off now.)

Then due to this solar hibernation could you imagine the oceans cooling off so much that the Indeo-Pacific freezes?

Please remember this is for a Speculative Fiction Novel, so even though the science should be somewhat plausible it doesn't have to be a 100% proven fact. It just has to be reasonable enough to get people to wrap their head around the idea while reading the novel.
Gwen - You don't have to be snippy about it. And I love how you can't wrap your head around any other idea then the status-quo. I also never read in the stuff I read about the Milankovitch Cycle being a proven fact, so to me that's also Science Fiction. But I do appreciate you saying my novel will become a movie, since that will mean I'll make a lot of money off of it and right now I could really use that money, since this economy has caused major problems for my guy finding a permanent job. (He's been laid off for over a year.)
LOL - Man-Bear-Pig!! I love your sarcasm! - It does make me wonder about the AGW crowd on Yahoo Answers, when they can't suspend their thinking even for a Speculative Fiction story. I'm hoping it's not the case for all of them. I hoping some of them can suspend their thought process to help me solidify this idea of mine. But then again maybe with their unwavering thinking about what's going to happen in the future of this planet, they lost their ability to think creatively. (Which in my mind is a thing a scientist should be able to do when they think of hypotheses.)

 

[Peter J]

I think you could write a really interesting story, with stuff a lot less dramatic than that. Imagine, for example Hollywood celebrities regularly shoveling snow because they helped ban snow blowers in LA. Such a dramatic change in the way things are would require massive infrastructure re-working, Less food for the world and a host of other significant problems.

That's a long way from frozen oceans, but still an interesting climate change topic.

 

[toocool]

You don't have to change a word. The script has already been written. Oh, you should change the names and add a disclaimer that any resemblance is coincidental. It's all there for a great novel: mystery, intrigue, political corruption, lying, etc. We're headed for a cooling cycle, but no, I wouldn't freeze the southern oceans. It would be more interesting to freeze the northern Atlantic and Pacific.