A relatively very new website has nearly caught up to this thread (also relatively very new). Recommended.
electroverse.net
THE INCREASING GALACTIC COSMIC RAY SITUATION
JULY 31, 2018 CAP ALLON
The sun has been without sunspots for 32 of the past 33 days.
To find a similar stretch of blank suns, you have to go back to 2009 when the sun was experiencing the DEEPEST SOLAR MINIMUM IN A CENTURY.
During solar minimum, the sun’s magnetic field weakens and the outward pressure of the solar wind decreases.
This allows more cosmic rays from deep space to penetrate the inner solar system and our planet’s atmosphere.
Solar minimum has returned, bringing with it extra Galactic Cosmic Rays.
Every USA weather balloon launch has exhibited the same pattern.
The Cosmic Ray upward trend is coast to coast:
Cosmic Rays come from outside the solar system.
They are a mixture of high-energy photons and sub-atomic particles accelerated toward Earth by supernova explosions and other violent events in the cosmos.
Here on Earth, we have two additional lines of defence: the magnetic field and atmosphere of our planet.
Earth’s current magnetic excursion is further amplifying the GCR situation.
Our magnetosphere is waning at an increasing rate as north and south magnetic poles continue their wander, with some predictions putting a meeting point over Indonesia within the next few years.
Previous magnetic excursions and reversals have led to increased cosmic rays, volcanic and seismic activity and the onset of ice ages.
When ice ages begin, they begin incredibly fast.
At the end of the Eemian, for example, the climate descended from a period of warmth such as today’s into full-blown glacial severity in less than twenty years.
EXACTLY WHAT AFFECT DO COSMIC RAYS HAVE?Cosmic rays penetrate commercial airlines, dosing passengers and flight crews so much that pilots are classified as occupational radiation workers by the ICRP.
The time astronauts can ‘safely’ spend in space has been cut over the years, from 1000 days in 1990 to 700 days in 2010 ( N. A. Schwadron et al.) — making any ideas of manned missions to Mars non-starters.
More crucially, however, the work of H. Svensmark, M.B. Enghoff, N. Shaviv and J. Svensmark attributes Cosmic Rays to cloud nucleation here on earth.
“Clouds are the Earth’s sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming — or global cooling,” Dr. Roy Spencer.
The implications of Svensmark’s study suggests that the mechanism have affected:
The climate changes observed during the 20th centuryThe coolings and warmings of around 2°C that have occurred repeatedly over the past 10,000 years, as the Sun’s activity and the cosmic ray influx have varied.The much larger variations of up to 10°C occurring as the Sun and Earth travel through the Galaxy visiting regions with varying numbers of exploding stars.These two independent factors occurring simultaneously — Solar Minimum and Magnetic Excursion — will have a dramatic impact on the Cosmic Ray count here on earth.
Cloud nucleation, or Earth’s Sunshade, will increase and the upshot is a cooling of the planet.
The addition of a magnetic excursion during a Grand Solar Minimum is throwing us something of a curve ball.
Modern civilisation is entering uncertain times.
Stay tuned for updates. |
