Christian Science Monitor
Solar flares
are ten million times more powerful than a volcanic explosion on earth.
They increase in frequency during the solar maximum phase of the sun's
11-year cycle. This cycle is expected to peak in 2013. By Nora
Doyle-Burr, Contributor / March 8 ...
The Bay City Times - MLive.com
Because of the recent increase in solar activity including several large solar flares
the normally Arctic-exclusive Aurora Borealis could extend much further
south into the Great Lakes Bay region. “The sun goes through a solar
activity cycle for about ...
Fox News
These latest solar flares
are just a warm-up act. But here's the thing about this "flare scare."
And the guys warning about it, frightening the you-know-what out of us,
about it?? Always frightening us with solar flare-ups that just die down.
Washington Post (blog)
A NASA color-coded image shows several extreme ultraviolet wavelength sun flares.
(AFP/GETTY IMAGES) I'm also not worried about a supernova or an
asteroid hitting us from space or getting whacked by a comet. And I'm
not really worried about an ...
A pair of unusually large solar flares early
yesterday generated a Coronal Mass Ejection that will reach Earth around
mid-day today. It will likely cause at least a strong geomagnetic storm
that could affect satellites in space and trigger auroral ...
By: Tariq Malik Published: 03/07/2012 07:31 AM EST on
SPACE.com The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6),
erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms.
One Response to Crying Wolf Over Solar Flares?
Drang says: March 7, 2012 2:52 pm at March 7, 2012 2:52 pm. Our ability
to observe these in time to give warning has improved vastly over the
last couple of years. Which I'm sure you know.
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