I’m ok with this, it never hurts to be reminded of what’s out there.
I’ve always found the CME to be interesting since it doesn’t leave a mark. Earthquakes, tsunami’s, volcanoes’ and asteroid strikes all leave there mark on the earth. Because of that, you can go back through the geologic record to see if they’re recurring events and, if so, see if there are patterns that might then help predict future events. Yellowstone erupting multiple times, every 700,000 years or so, as an example. But the CME doesn’t leave a mark and therefore we have no idea how common they are or how bad they can be.
The video mention a possible correlation to several mass extinction events but I don’t believe that’s been established. Kind of like the mention of the Bermuda Triangle, you’re free to believe it or not but science doesn’t think much of it.
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Ok so what are you trying to tell us? I thought we we were going into a solar minimum...
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One of the things presented in the video is the Earth’s magnetic field protects us from a CME, which is true. The video then goes on to present a case for the shield becoming weaker as the poles move around, possibly as a prelude to a pole reversal. This is also actual science, the poles really are moving and the field is weakening. How much and what it actually means is being looked at. The claim in the video is that this weakening magnetic field means we are more vulnerable to smaller CME’s. If that’s true than a solar minimum, which theoretically produces fewer and smaller CME’s, still presents a danger.