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Climate change is causing changes in our weather, but that’s nothing compared to what’s happening on the sun. Solar scientists say that the sun’s magnetic field is weakening, and we are going to go into a long period of solar inactivity, but NASA remains worried enough about massive solar flares to begin working on a solar shield that will protect the power grid from dangerous solar explosions. A new NASA project called "Solar Shield" could help keep the lights on. On the NASA website, Tony Phillips quotes NASA researcher Antti Pulkkinen as saying, "Solar Shield is a new and experimental forecasting system for the North American power grid.read more

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Due to low sunspot activity – The Earth’s atmosphere has collapsed. New discoveries show that it rises and falls in tandem with the Sun’s cycle, and the sunspot cycle has been unusually weak lately (although it appears to be reactivating–or is it?).

Sunspots are set off by a magnetic field, and despite recent signs of them starting up again, they seem to be continuing their decline. Some scientists predict that by 2016 there may be NO more sunspots, and that this condition may last for 20 years. The last time this happened was in the 17th and 18th century, during what has come to be known as the Little Ice Age. Solar minimums usually last for around 16 months, but the current one has already lasted 26 months, making it the longest one in 100 years.read more

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Our sun isn’t the only star that flares up into sunspots every 11 years. In a bid to unlock longstanding mysteries of the Sun, including the impacts on Earth of its 11-year cycle, an international team of scientists has successfully probed a distant star and found that it ALSO has an 11-year cycle.

The scientists studied a star known as HD49933, which is located 100 light years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, just east of Orion. When they examined the star’s acoustic fluctuations (sounds), they detected the signature of “starspots,” areas of intense magnetic activity on the surface that are similar to sunspots.
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The sun is back with a vengeance! – Solar flares are starting up again, after a long hiatus, and they are predicted to be extraordinary.

NASA warns that the recent massive flare wasn’t an anomaly, it’s just the beginning. A massive solar storm is building up that could even wipe out the Earth’s entire power grid. Similar storms in 1859 and 1921 wiped out telegraph wires on a massive scale. NASA says that a similar storm today could cause “$1 to 2 trillion in damages to society’s high-tech infrastructure and require 4 to 10 years for complete recovery.”
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