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spurgeonryan said:
I probably should know this. What is a geomagnetic storm and how does it affect us?

Is that what causes reception to be scrambled at times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqKalpYgLo

 

Last edited by bdbdbd - on 16 January 2018

Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

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Solar activity and temperature estimations from 1100 to 1900.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/17jan_solcon

The solar constant also drifts by 0.2% to 0.6% over many centuries, according to scientists who study tree rings. These small changes can affect Earth in a big way. For example, between 1645 and 1715 (a period astronomers call the "Maunder Minimum") the sunspot cycle stopped; the face of the Sun was nearly blank for 70 years. At the same time Europe was hit by an extraordinary cold spell: the Thames River in London froze, glaciers advanced in the Alps, and northern sea ice increased. An earlier centuries-long surge in solar activity (inferred from studies of tree rings) had the opposite effect: Vikings were able to settle the thawed-out coast of Greenland in the 980s, and even grow enough wheat there to export the surplus to Scandinavia.