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Solar storms
« on: 22 May 2025, 20:23:54 »
These have always fascinated me. A big one could reap havoc and is one reason (of many!) why I say we should keep cash and not rely on everything digital.

Anyway, I just received this email:

More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it happened again today. Spoiler alert: It could.
 
The record-strong storm is described in the upcoming July 2025 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. It occurred in 12,350 BC and is classified as a "Miyake Event."

Miyake Events are solar storms that make the Carrington Event of 1859 look puny.


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Read more at www.SpaceWeather.com
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #1 on: 22 May 2025, 21:30:00 »
If you could find a 14,000 year old tree in the first place, it wouldn't be able to remember what the weather was like 5 minutes ago, let alone prehistoric solar storms!  ;D
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #2 on: 22 May 2025, 21:33:51 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on 22 May 2025, 21:30:00
If you could find a 14,000 year old tree in the first place, it wouldn't be able to remember what the weather was like 5 minutes ago, let alone prehistoric solar storms!  ;D
Leave it  ;D
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #3 on: 22 May 2025, 21:50:36 »
The Miyake Event of 12,350 BC is especially intriguing. It appears as a carbon-14 spike in Scots Pine trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France, with a matching beryllium-10 spike in Greenland ice cores. The event was global and, based on the size of the spikes, very big.

So, yes, they did find such an old tree.
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #4 on: 22 May 2025, 22:49:26 »
Oh God now we have to worry about Cosmic Climate Change!  ;D
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 09:55:28 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on 22 May 2025, 22:49:26
Oh God now we have to worry about Cosmic Climate Change!  ;D

Nothing to with climate. My concern is our over-reliance on microchip technology.
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 10:13:21 »
No, you're right.  If a solar storm did wipe us out however they'd never admit it was cosmic rays, they'd blame it on climate change and put up taxes!  ::)
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 10:50:45 »
It's the gen-z way. It isn't newsworthy unless you can find a climate change angle somehow. ;)
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Re: Solar storms
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 10:55:42 »
Or Brexit, or Trump.  :D
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