"Grand Solar Minimum" -- Why is that so important?

More importantly, why are we not informed (and warned), other than by an obscure blogsite most likely non-US?

What follows is a little TLDR for those who wish to understand in about 10 minutes.
First the MUST KNOW - Cosmic Rays vs Sunspots.

One cosmic ray can have as much energy as a lightning bolt, and all of that is packed into a single proton (hydrogen nucleus), or some other heavier atom.

A weak cosmic ray is more like this Tesla coil, ~1/2 million volts:
So a cosmic "ray" is in fact the nucleus of an atom.

There are "gazillions" of those "raining down" into earth's atmosphere every hour. (A scientific estimate is 1 per square centimeter per minute.)

Most of these collide w something in the air and create an "air shower."
One cosmic ray particle can create a shower of billions of secondary particles spread over tens of miles.

There are countless such showers round the clock.

The REAL science says that these showers stimulate the formation of clouds.

Clouds are good at reflecting sunlight.
Cosmic rays =>
More clouds =>
Cooler temps =>
Non-melting ice =>
"Albedo Effect (more white surface)"

As long as there is an adequate number of cosmic rays, Earth can get _stuck_ in an Ice Age for >100k years, then <20k year "break."
Scientists in the 70's were guessing that we are currently well past the end of a 10,000 yr inter-glacial period.

"In 1977, the worst winter in a century struck the United States .. One desperate night in Buffalo, eight people froze to death in marooned cars."
"One of the questions that I'm frequently asked is when will this present warming will end, and the best answer to that probably is that it has in fact already ended, and it ended 3,000 years ago right here on Baffin Island [trans-arctic Canada]." - Gifford Miller, U of Colorado
He has been analyzing ice core samples on Baffin Island (and elsewhere) to infer average temperature readings going back many thousands of years. Here is the resulting graph from those readings. The vertical line marks 3,000 YBP (years before present).
Note the "elbow up" for the last 200 years. That is known as the Hockey Stick (doctored data).

To be fair, we did come out of the Little Ice Age.

But there are non-sequiturs - this one connecting warm air with loaded hurricanes lingering and California wildfire plumes.
The left pic is the sunspot cycle graph since 1900. Note the minimum in 1977.

The right pic zooms in on the last four (cycles 21 - 24). The peaks are steadily declining with the minimum basically going to zero in 2009 and 2020.
Here is a thesis backed up with evidence stating that 'cosmic rays are the only source of atmospheric ionization.'

If "you" are doping jet fuel with cloud seeding chemicals, be warned, your ignorance is about to cause a worldwide catastrophe.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0908/0908.4156.pdf
Correction: The Leonard Nimoy narrated video is 1978, not '77.
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