Yes, but there are other much greater forces contributing. Our poles have begun to shift, and our planet is going through growing pains. This is a natural (and overdue) occurence.
This relatively fast magnetic decay - it must weaken substantially before a full polarity reversal - will take perhaps a few hundred more years. And during that time, we are less protected from solar radiation. And you can guess what that means.
This phenomenon is real, and although it is largely ignored in the press, is a huge contributing factor to all kinds of planetary changes. Us humans? Yeah, we aren't helping global warming much. But if polarity shift is an elephant, we're a gnat on the elephant's @ss.
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