Last year the 11 year solar cycle (solar flares, sunspots...) began and will peak in 2025. increased solar activity has been associated with increases in wars and can strongly influence the human psyche. Increased solar radiation will impact our health and can increase the rate of cancer. It will wreak havoc on technology, especially telecommunication, electrical grids, satellites etc....Very concerning given how dependent we are on technology,
A few days ago we were hit by millions of tons of super-heated gas from the sun. According to Bloomberg news it was the strongest we have seen in a while,
The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn’t particularly powerful on the space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth’s magnetic field it triggered the strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn’t much disruption this time -- few people probably even knew it happened -- but it served as a reminder the sun has woken from a years-long slumber.
The concern is that climate change and electro pollution have reduced our protection from the sun's radiation, the geomagnetic field surrounding the earth. A dent has formed in it called the South Atlantic Anomaly.
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