There’s nothing “panicky” about this thread. It is informative as to the current geologic situation.
During solar minimums - that would be now - and particularly during grand solar minimums, the influx of cosmic rays interact with metallic particles in the earth’s magma and increase earthquake and volcanic activity.
A large increase in volcanic activity, to include under the oceans where most of the volcanos are, puts gigatons of particulate matter into the air, resulting in a lot more cloud cover which reflects solar energy and cools the earth.
Get enough volcanos going and we get a little ice age like the Maunder Minimum. This is happening now.
One of these little ice ages will actully be the beginning of a full 110,000 year ice age and there won’t be anything mankind can do to prevent it.
Going back 8,000 years or so, the earth’s average temperature has been falling. The temp graph fluctuates up & down like a stock market graph but the trend is consistently moving lower over time. Full ice ages reoccur at 11,500-12,000 year intervals, which is about the time since the end of the last big ice age.
Before anything like what you are afraid of happens, mankind will eliminate itself without the help of anyone.
“During solar minimums - that would be now - and particularly during grand solar minimums, the influx of cosmic rays interact with metallic particles in the earth’s magma and increase earthquake and volcanic activity.”
If I understand the argument, less solar activity means a weaker solar wind, weaker Van Allen belt, and less protection from cosmic rays from other stars. Is that it?
Carrying it one step further, more cosmic rays leads to more terrestrial volcanic activity.
I remember a post at FreeRepublic which reduced solar influence to “solar irradiance.” The poster was pushing global warming by attempting to minimize any other influence. It appears that the sun can affect the earth by a variety of mechanisms.