Solar Variability


Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist -- Jim Mannion  -- Sydney Morning Herald  -- February 18, 2011

A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said.But the Earth appears to have escaped a widespread geomagnetic storm, with the effects confined to the northern latitudes, possibly reaching down into Norway and Canada.

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Can a Lull in Solar Activity Head Off Climate Change? -- Colin Erickson  -- Boston Globe  -- December 7, 2009
Geoengineering

Scientists debate what effect the sun's current drop in activity, "the deepest solar minimum in almost 100 years", is having on global temperatures.

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