There haven't been any "sun spots" for a LONG time. Possibly the longest ever recorded where none have been seen. I'm wondering if it could mean the sun is dyinr or dead or something. It's so far away that when we look at it, we're seeing it in the past anyway so I guess it could be dead and us not know for many years. I assume we are technically being heated by PAST sun energy.

A sunspot is a region on the Sun's surface (photosphere) that is marked by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of reduced surface temperature. They can be visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 4,000–4,500 K, the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5,800 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of T (temperature) to the fourth power. If a sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc.

A minimum in the eleven-year sunspot cycle happened during 2008.[1] While the reverse polarity sunspot[2] observed on 4 January 2008 may represent the start of Cycle 24, no additional sunspots have yet been seen in this cycle. The definition of a new sunspot cycle is when the average number of sunspots of the new cycle's magnetic polarity outnumbers that of the old cycle's polarity[citation needed]. Forecasts in 2006 predicted Cycle 24 to start between late 2007 and early 2008, but new estimates suggest a delay until 2009.

Source:Wikipedia

There was more to it than only the lack of sun spots I think. Because it was mentioned that the activity in general on the sun had slowed way down and that it's possible it could actually be dangerous to the earth.