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Originally Posted by aerohead

*the only solar minimum we know of occurred between 1645 and 1715.
*Is there a reason why a solar physicist would have prior knowledge of an impending,70-year event?
*And if sunspots have virtually nothing to do with the solar constant,why all the fuss?
*What would constitute weather control? English explorers have documented Chinese drought,and flood-ravaged crop failures since the 18th-Century,with millions dying at a time,which had nothing whatsoever to do with sunspots.
*They're damming rivers to control flooding.
*They'll lose their rivers if climate change continues,as Himalayan sources are already stressed.Cutting carbon would constitute weather control.
*Irrigation would be the only thing they could do about drought.
*Cloud-seeding hasn't worked out for anyone.

The chinese are building huge cloud seeding setups in the mountains that are going to pump tons of silver iodide into the atmosphere to turn on the rain, at least that's the plan.
The Chinese have been accused of weather control before, the most famous instance being how the skys miraculously cleared for the start for the Beijing Olympics.

Solar cycles have been declining since solar cycle 21. I think something like 97% of solar scientists agree this solar cycle has had a severe activity drought and solar cycles 25 and 26 will also have a drop in the bucket compared to normal the normal level of action.
They are not projecting a grand solar minimum, just a brief one only lasting 2 or 3 cycles.