The worst is yet to come
In a 2019 interview with award-winning Canadian journalist Stuart McNish, Zharkova warned with great seriousness that ever since 2015, solar activity has been decreasing in a way that has only ever been seen during a Grand Solar Minimum, the last of which occurred during the Maunder Minimum 400 years ago.
Citing research from NASA and the NOAA, Zharkova says the data and evidence is there, it is just that nobody with official status is talking about it. And this is only just the beginning of this Grand Solar Minimum period, the worst of which is yet to come.
"Between cycle 25 and 11 years of cycle 26 [the least active cycle], and between cycle 26 and 27, will be the coldest period on Earth, and we will feel it through a lack of vegetation," she explained.
In other words, from the second half of this current decade through the early 2050s, the earth will experience exceptionally cold weather; all sorts of extreme weather events, earthquakes in various places; and volcanic eruptions. And in Zharkova's views, the early 2030s will see the worst of it.