COMING SOON--THE FIRST AURORAS OF 2014: Magnetic fields in the sun's northern hemisphere have opened up, creating a vast hole in the sun's atmosphere--a coronal hole. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring the UV-dark gap:
Coronal holes are places where magnetic fields threading through the sun's atmosphere spread apart and allow solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this particular coronal hole could reach Earth on Jan. 2-3, possibly sparking polar geomagnetic storms. SpaceWeather
INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES: Sunspots AR1934 and AR1936 have grown significantly in the past 24 hours, each more than doubling in area as dozens of new dark cores add themselves to the two active regions. Click on the image to review the developments:
"Wave of ionization in the upper atmosphere over Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe"
Sunspot AR1934 has developed a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for powerful X-class solar flares. Sunspot AR1936 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for lesser M-class flares. Nevertheless, AR1936 poses the greater threat to Earth because it is directly facing our planet. Indeed, an M3-class flare from this sunspot on Dec. 29th created a wave of ionization in the upper atmosphere over Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe. More flares are in the offing, so stay tuned. SpaceWeather
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Should we be concerned?
This year, and at no other time in history has the subject of solar radiation and the effects of weather modification triggered such heightened awareness. This seems to have been generated by postulations touched in mainstream media including the Internet that Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan that struck Central Philippines was a supertyphoon that underwent man-made intensification.
Attempts to debunk the idea by so-called local 'experts' merely succeeded in bringing to the fore the 'woeful mistake' by a sector of our local scientific community in dismissing the subject as 'just not possible in science'.
Wikipedia defines Geoengineering as "the application of geosciences, where mechanics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geology are used to understand and shape our interaction with the earth". Others define it as roughly the “deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change” (Shepherd et al. 2009).
Now global geoengineering has become an even hotter topic as it now also involves the touchy 'weather modification via frequency' postulation. More than one-and-a-half curious millions were drawn to the relevant YouTube video that generated people's interest worldwide.
As if the cat is really out of the bag, 12 scientific papers have recently been released all at the same time, seen by some as the beginning of the public involvement in the discourse 'at least officially':
Special Issue: Geoengineering Research and its Limitations
In: Climate Change, Volume 121, Issue 3, December 2013. They're as follows: Link
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