Coronal heating mystery solved?

Coronal heating mystery solved?  I've been reading for years about this science mystery – temperatures in the corona (the plasma around the sun) are over a million degrees, and nobody knew where the energy came from to heat it.  Now there's an explanation, involving the sun's polar magnetic fields...

This is classic science at work: hypotheses confirmed or disproved by actual observations.  Unlike, for instance, what passes for “climate science” (largely funded by we, the taxpayers, of course).  In that field the norm has deteriorated to cherry-picking (mostly old) observations, adjusting them in arbitrary and capricious ways, then plugging them into models that spin cotton-candy fantasies seemingly designed to attract more grant money.  These two kinds of science are not the same thing at all...