Yep.

I remember back in '07, when I started watching the sun, and was excited to experience solar cycle 24 (which we are currently in the post-maximum decline of), and yeesh, is it a dud. The space weather forecasting people keep playing the "you'll be sorry in the future" card, but no one's listening. I think they're right. Even if we're entering a new solar period of extreme quiet (Dalton or Mauder-like or totally different) we'll eventually need to incorporate orbital boosting technology to combat increasing atmospheric drag and a power grid that can withstand relatively large currents induced by geomagnetic storms.

In related news: I'd wager that soon we limit searches for intelligent life to "habitable zone" planets with radio emissions from characteristic plasma processes that are indicative of a healthy magnetosphere. That's an issue of sensing resolution that tech can potentially resolve in the not-too-distant future.

Also, there's been that recent press release of the deeper layers of the ocean temporarily storing heat, and they will eventually reintroduce it into the atmosphere (as the ocean and atmosphere are thermally coupled systems).