Dave,
Great post. The Sun is going into remission and we're staring at a Maunder Minimum as a number of solar cycles come together at the same time. We haven't felt it at the surface yet because of 1) confirmation bias and 2) because the planet is venting heat from the mantle as solar irradient flux backs off.
It's like it's 2:30 in the afternoon. The sun peaks at 12 but the hottest part of the day is around 3pm as the ground vents the heat it absorbed earlier back into the air.
But, the sun has already started going down.
Agreed. Solar cycles are a major part of the long term natural cycles that human's are not going to have any success trying to change.
Tilting at windmills if we don't do an honest assessment of what we can impact, and what we cannot realistically impact in a meaningful way.
Solar cycles will come and go long after the human species is extinct
And the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas
-- George Carlin.
He was very perceptive for a comic. The pretenders that came after often just focused on copying the potty language and never copied the deep ideas.
Actually solar cycles also have impacts on the short term too.