Sign up with GoogleIt's a little-understood and little-researched field, but solar scientists are pretty much ad idem that the magnetosphere affects global weather and also climate. New research is showing that the effect is much greater than heretofore thought.
We already know our planet is going through an accelerating polar shift. For decades the magnetic pole has been shifting by a few kilometres a year, but recently the shift has accelerated to about 70km/year, and still speeding up. Incidentally, the well-known and long-established South Atlantic Anomoly is intensifying and growing.
In a recent paper, solar scientists find compelling evidence that magnetic intensity of solar storms affecting Earth can increase the effects of the polar shift and also speed up the frequency of the superstorms.
Also, the sun is a raging dragon at present. The Sun Spot Max is about three weeks away. And we're approaching the Solar Max in May 2013. About three weeks ago an unusually large flare appeared, but solar scientists are hugely perplexed by the low energy output of that flare, which has raised deep questions about our understanding of solar flares. Current theory would have put the recent giant flare at a NOAA G3 level, but it barely made a G1, and no-one knows why. Though it wouldn't have been a Carrington Event (1859), it could have been 20% of that event if the pong matched the sound (to use a fart analogy).
I for one wouldn't be surprised of this sort of thing lies behind the current weather chaos. Of course we don't really know, and the boffins will have to check it all out (if they can get any funding, because all the money's in AGW and the political agenda driving it). I'm not surprised that we're not reading much about this is the popular press - the (false) AGW meme infecting most journalists means they just can't fit this into their pre-copernican climate theory.
And as some notable icons of real science have noted, a goodly portion of climate science has been hijacked by science-degreed politico's who don't scruple at playing loose with the truth.
We already know our planet is going through an accelerating polar shift. For decades the magnetic pole has been shifting by a few kilometres a year, but recently the shift has accelerated to about 70km/year, and still speeding up. Incidentally, the well-known and long-established South Atlantic Anomoly is intensifying and growing.
In a recent paper, solar scientists find compelling evidence that magnetic intensity of solar storms affecting Earth can increase the effects of the polar shift and also speed up the frequency of the superstorms.
Also, the sun is a raging dragon at present. The Sun Spot Max is about three weeks away. And we're approaching the Solar Max in May 2013. About three weeks ago an unusually large flare appeared, but solar scientists are hugely perplexed by the low energy output of that flare, which has raised deep questions about our understanding of solar flares. Current theory would have put the recent giant flare at a NOAA G3 level, but it barely made a G1, and no-one knows why. Though it wouldn't have been a Carrington Event (1859), it could have been 20% of that event if the pong matched the sound (to use a fart analogy).
I for one wouldn't be surprised of this sort of thing lies behind the current weather chaos. Of course we don't really know, and the boffins will have to check it all out (if they can get any funding, because all the money's in AGW and the political agenda driving it). I'm not surprised that we're not reading much about this is the popular press - the (false) AGW meme infecting most journalists means they just can't fit this into their pre-copernican climate theory.
And as some notable icons of real science have noted, a goodly portion of climate science has been hijacked by science-degreed politico's who don't scruple at playing loose with the truth.
