The sunspot cycle and therefore solar activity will be at a maximum this year. However, this has nothing to do with the alignment. Other doomsayers fear an extraordinary gravitational pull on our planet, which would wreak havoc in many ways, including causing the Earth's tilt to change, not to mention earthquakes and floods. Many scientists anticipate a major solar disturbance this year but most insist the grand alignment will have no effect on solar storms, which occur in predictable 11-year cycles. Major storms and eruptions on the Sun s surface have been known to affect communications systems and are blamed for a province-wide blackout in Quebec in 1989.
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