A viewer asks: “Are we actually going into a period of solar minimum? There are those scientists who say that we are having more severe winters and actual decreases in overall summer temperatures.”

This is quite true and well-known and expected by the scientific community, that the world is currently in another grand solar minimum that will play out over several decades with exactly those changes. The effects are not large but are quite measurable and will be felt to the degree they moderate the temperature and result in more snowfall versus rain, and less intense heatwaves during the summer seasons. So this is not an answer to those who believe in climate change as a threat to human survival. They well know the science here, at least the experts among them, but are anticipating a greater overall warming trend that will swamp the effects of the solar minimum. This will not be the case, but their talking points are believed and having an impact on public opinion and governmental policies, and that is where it gets dangerous because it leads to doing the wrong things and wasting time and resources on a kind of folly that will benefit no one but only cause harm using misguided and destructive strategies.