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The same crackpots who are denying that global warming is caused by humans and who are claiming that the whole solar system is about to catch on fire have latched onto a significant but not unprecedented hiccup in the timing of the latest sunspot cycle to prop up their outrageous claim that We Are Imminently Doomed By Forces Beyond Our Control So We Do Not Need To DO Anything But Wait For Death. To be totally fair, the Earth IS ultimately doomed by forces that are currently and probably forever beyond our capacity to control, but odds are we have at least a few hundred million years before we are forced to vacate the planet due to solar activity…
The current sunspot cycle IS ‘late’ for its ‘usual’ turnaround from minimum sunspot activity toward maximum, but…