Description:
Henrik Svensmark is a Danish physicist and professor of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute. He is best known for his hypothesis that cosmic rays are one of the main drivers of earth's climate. The CERN CLOUD experiment is based on Henrik's theory.
Timeline:
00:00 - Solar activity is changing Earth's cloud cover
04:16 - Galactic cosmic rays
07:31 - How cosmic rays create clouds
13:59 - Clouds might responsible for climate change
18:08 - Measuring historic cosmic ray activity
23:24 - Henrik's early experiments on cosmic rays
26:27 - Earth's historical temperature cycles
33:29 - The Sun's magnetic field has doubled
35:51 - Earth's trip through the Milky Way Galaxy
41:50 - How stars are formed
47:11 - Supernova activity correlation to Earth's temperature
51:55 - Earth is in a glaciation period
56:14 - Temperature changes vs. amount of life on Earth
01:04:54 - the IPCC report on climate influence
01:10:28 - Bill Gates changes tune on geo-engineering
01:18:13 - Scientists fail to disprove Henrik
01:21:44 - Coronal mass ejections
01:25:40 - South Atlantic Anomaly
01:28:08 - How Earth's magnetic poles are moving
01:32:51 - Humans affect climate less than we're told
01:34:33 - When galaxies collide
01:37:05 - New revision on the Big Bang Theory
01:44:04 - How climate influences evolution
01:51:04 - Why Earth is the only planet with life
01:55:26 - The current climate forecast model is WRONG
02:01:11 - Difficulty funding climate research
02:11:44 - CERN's climate project
02:19:06 - CO2 is the gas of life
One of the risks of the greatest solar storms (and others now earth's field is weakening) is a low-level field arc discharge to the surface due to compression towards the surface and increased energy seeking a quicker path to ground, which would be a straight line down.
Ben Davidson joins again to continue the conversation on space weather and its influence on the climate. He discusses the regular solar cycles and the impact of the coming Solar Grand Minimum and the emergence of the Polar Vortex. He takes it deeper with a discussion on magnetic reversals and the current state of our magnetosphere and provides some similarities with solar magnetic reversals and the Earth's current magnetic excursion. He also covers the role of galactic cosmic rays and their impact on the climate. -GunsandButter.org
X-Flare. Solar activity is now high. Big Active Region 11429, which emerged on March 2nd, is crackling with strong flares. The strongest so far, an X1-class eruption, occured just ths morning, March 5th at 0413 UT. The explosion also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The expanding cloud will probably deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on March 7th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras in the nights ahead.