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Robert Schoch is the geologist who proved that the true age of the Sphinx is 10,600 years, based on the fact that the sandstone is water-eroded. Here he explains why the last ice age ended so suddenly–it was a massive solar storm that lasted for years. He explains that our sun is actually an unstable star that goes through periods of extraordinary instability, and discusses when it may happen again. Incredibly, rock engravings from the distant past actually depict the type of plasmas that would appear in the sky when extreme solar events were underway.
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An X-5 solar flare has sent a coronal mass ejection directly toward earth. The CME is now impacting earth’s atmosphere, and has the potential to disrupt satellites, unprotected power grids and global positioning systems. While there may not be a strong effect on well protected satellites and power grids in the developed world, there is a greater possibility that grids in the developing world could fail temporarily.
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NASA reports that a recent lull in the sun’s activity did not prevent the Earth from absorbing more solar energy than could escape back into space. This means that climate change is mainly caused by human activity–not the sun, as some people would like to think.

This imbalance (more energy coming in than leaving) is what drives global warming, and because it occurred during a period when the sun was emitting comparatively low levels of energy, it means we have to clean up our act and curb greenhouse gases. read more

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A passing coronal mass ejection from the sun caused an illumination response from an otherwise invisible object near Mercury that was captured both by NASA’s Heliospheric Imager 1 satellite and by the SECCHI-A spacecraft. Initially, SECCHI staff explained it as a video afterimage of the planet on the previous day, but other imagery of Mercury taken during other coronal mass ejections do not show the same effect, and the explanation has since been removed from their website. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s wrong, as a similar ‘object’ has been observed near Mars by SECCHI-B. It could well be that what is being seen is an after-image of a previous day’s run, just as NASA says.
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