Posted on 05/20/2025 7:48:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Approximately 14,000 years ago, the unprecedented solar event—now judged to be the most powerful known to have occurred—marked Earth’s transition into the Holocene epoch, according to the findings of an international team of scientists.
The team traces the event to around 12,350 BC using a new climate-chemistry model specifically designed to reconstruct ancient solar particle activity. This expands the known timeline for ancient solar storms and raises the bar on the upper boundaries of their intensity.
Although the event in question was already known from past observations of radiocarbon spikes in ancient wood samples, its scale and magnitude remained unknown.
Now, thanks to a unique model employed by researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland led by postdoctoral researcher Kseniia Golubenko and Professor Ilya Usoskin, the ancient storm is recognized as being 18% more intense than the next strongest solar event of similar character, which occurred in AD 775 based on data from tree-ring data.
The discovery was made possible by the team’s specially designed SOCOL:14C-Ex model, which also showed the extremity of the event from 14,000 years ago compared with the most powerful solar storms of recent years.
“Compared to the largest event of the modern satellite era — the 2005 particle storm — the ancient 12,350 BC event was over 500 times more intense, according to our estimates,” Dr. Golubenko said.
Golubenko notes that the scale of such storms in the past reveals the potential that storms of similar magnitude could occur again. The impact such solar activity might have on modern infrastructure, including satellites, electrical grids, and communication systems, could be vastly underestimated.
“This event establishes a new worst-case scenario,” Golubenko said.
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We survived....................
So there was an attempt to sterilize the Earth of Proto Socialist Democrats!
Of course not. There was only one of those under strict orders to apply only when needed. < /sarc>
I think they are referring to recent observed events we could accurately measure.
Is it possible that this is connected to the Younger Dryas Event that started 12,900 years ago and ended about 11,600?
The Younger Dryas. I was thinking the exact same thing.
I was reading some of the fine print and it says: “We know this happened because Elon Musk has a time machine and Donald Trump went back in time and saw this happen. Because of that we conclude it’s Donald Trumps fault”
The link does not work.
They say it is 500 times more powerful than the 2005 storm.
Big deal.
How does it compare to the Carrington Event?
Yes, they were intelligent, artistic, etc.
But they were still cavemen by definition! And the weather disturbances may have forced some of those who had not been “cavemen” to take shelter in caves!
Probably written by Michael Mann
Wolves? I want T-Rex & Raptors!
I welcome their sauce research.
Every second the Sun converts 4 million tons of matter into pure energy. The Soviet Czar H-bomb , at 50 Megatons the biggest ever, converted about a pound into energy. It’s amazing that Earth has not been toasted by now.
Which Stephen Crowder clip is that, exactly?
Roasted AND toasted.
As Walt “Clyde” Frazier might say.
Additional info on the Younger Dryas Event: the comet was believed to be Encke. Mile-wide debris from it rained down on Earth for 100 years, burning off 10% of Earth’s vegetation - which can be seen in a geological layer called the Black Mat, several feet thick in many places. The debris mostly struck the Laurentide ice sheet north of Michigan and around Hudson Bay regions.
The air bursting debris caused firestorms which incinerated animals, forests, and people. The impacts threw ice miles into the sky, as the huge chunks of ice rained down, they sliced through whatever they came in contact with, and also formed the Carolina Bays and the Nebraska Rainwater Basin.
Every year the Earth passes through the same debris field in the fall, called the Taurid meteor showers. If there are still mile-wide chucks remaining in the dense part of the field we will again experience another serious shower; interestingly in the aftermath, every one began to make astronomical centers.
Seems like standard practice is to have someone other than the author of the story write the headline - preferably someone who has not even read the story.
LOL
“Seems like standard practice is to have someone other than the author of the story write the headline - preferably someone who has not even read the story.”
Standard practice since newspapers were published.
Well, since it was claimed that it is believed to have happened at least once, and perhaps many more times that we are not aware of. Logic would dictate that yes, it could happen again if the claim is correct.
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