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From your NASA link:
Originally posted by DjembeJedi
Could the Sun Really be Sentient? I am saying this because of all the Huge Flares we have had as of this year YET none have been directly sent to earth!
This is why though the solar flares affect "space weather", they don't affect Earth weather in the short term. In the long term the sun will get bigger and hotter and boil all the water in the oceans away.
Since solar wind is measured in nanopascals it is approximately 1000 million times weaker than winds here on Earth.
So, the really big ones happen perhaps every 500 years. The events 1/5 as large happen several times per century. And you're asking why we haven't been hit by big events in one year? It's not sentience and it's not even exactly luck, it's the statistical pattern we've observed that big flare events do strike Earth, but as the ice cores show, the frequency of large events is pretty low. There is no evidence of sentience of the sun, you were joking about that, weren't you?
Ice cores contain thin nitrate-rich layers that can be analyzed to reconstruct a history of past events before reliable observations; the data from Greenland ice cores was gathered by Kenneth G. McCracken[9] and others. These show evidence that events of this magnitude—as measured by high-energy proton radiation, not geomagnetic effect—occur approximately once per 500 years, with events at least one-fifth as large occurring several times per century.[10] Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported.
Originally posted by abeverage
So did the Sun do this 11 years ago? Or 22 years ago or 33 years ago? Did we have a vibrational change every 11 years? Because that is how often the sun reaches solar maximum.
Solar output and solar flares are different topics which both involve the sun so I think you have them confused.
Originally posted by rickymouse
Nasa does now recognize that Space weather can effect weather indirectly. It causes Northern lights to increase and sometimes causes a reverberation of our atmosphere which indirectly effects weather. They are presently studying this new theory. It is well known that the long solar minimum we experienced hundreds of years ago put us into an ice age. If this isn't evidence itself that spaceweather effects climate than what is. The long Solar minimum could be used to help predict longterm weather outlooks when it happens next time. From what I have read, it may happen soon.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Solar output and solar flares are different topics which both involve the sun so I think you have them confused.
But if you have a link showing how solar flares affect real weather on earth, or even the theory, please post it.
I think you'll find it's not solar flares but solar output.
No need for a link to this then, it's well known, but climate is not weather...they are related, but there's a big difference.
Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by Arbitrageur
What I refer to is not immediate weather changes but an change in overall patterns.