Artist’s representation of a solarstorm – Bard et al. A team of international scientists analyzed ancient tree rings in the French Alps. Radiocarbon is constantly produced in the upper atmospheric through a chain reaction initiated by cosmic rays. We now know that flares of activity sometimes become storms of activities, called Miyake events. “Such super storms can permanently damage transformers in our electrical grids, leading to huge and widespread blackouts for months,” said Professor Tim Heaton of the University of Leeds. They could also cause permanent damage to satellites, which we all depend on for navigation and telecommunication. This would render them unusable. “Each new finding not only answers existing questions, but can also lead to new ones.” The research team measured the radiocarbon levels of ancient trees preserved in the eroded banks along the Drouzet river, near Gap in the Southern French Alps. The tree in question – credit Bard et al. via SWNSBy comparing the spike with measurements of beryllium, a chemical element found in Greenland ice cores, the team suggests that the spike was caused by a massive solar storm that would have ejected huge volumes of energetic particles into Earth’s atmosphere.”Radiocarbon measured in tree rings, used alongside beryllium in polar ice cores, provide the best way to understand the Sun’s behavior further back into the past,” said study lead author, Professor Edouard Bard of the College de France.MORE PREDICTIVE SCIENCE: Scientists Discover Time Moving 5x Slower After Big Bang-Exactly as Einstein PredictedThe largest, directly-observed, Miyako event occurred in 1859 and is known as the Carrington Event.It caused massive disruption on Earth–destroying telegraph machines and creating a night-time aurora so bright that birds began to sing, believing the Sun had begun to rise.NASA has begun to take planetary defense as a serious funding priority, believing that the odds are essentially inevitable that some space-based event will threaten Earth in the long term. NASA has prioritized planetary defense because they believe that some space-based event will threaten Earth in the long term.
The largest renewable storm to have ever hit the Earth was discovered by an international team of scientists hidden inside the trunks of old trees. Today’s most powerful storm, comparable to the recently discovered one, would completely disrupt world infrastructure and technology, from power transformers to satellites, but it would be easier to understand how.
Scientists may be able to predict the future thermal storm thanks to the post-evidence of a large one discovered in old tree rings. second appeared on the Good News Network.
