Suspicious0bservers report 2/8/17

[Cirocco]

Small to medium solar flares help keep our atmosphere expanded, so a lack of these is significant for more severe weather; floods, drought, hotter summers, colder winters and so on.  There has been severe snowstorms in Iran and Pakistan and even snow in the Sahara recently.  The times, they are a-changing.  

My intent isn't to alarm or unduly panic anyone.  It's simply a heads-up to prepare for what's to come.  

Peace, love and joy to you this day, brothers and sisters.

Eh, this one goes both ways though.  It's also been a long time since we had a massive solar flare's ejecta directly strike the Earth either, not since before the electronic age.  Which is good, because a sufficiently massive solar flare and hit would act as a worldwide EMP.  Increased weather irregularities are bad, but instantaneous global shutdown of most/all electronics would be far worse.  

We even had a near miss in 2012 which would have caused global disruption and a timeline of years to even begin to pick up the pieces.  Assuming society didn't collapse or anything like that, which would be a possibility depending on when it happened and how much damage was caused.

So on the whole, I think I'm OK with the prospect of fewer solar storms.

My apologies for being unclear. If the loss of planetary magnetism is due to a loss of cohesion in the Earth's core and the atmospheric shields are weakening any solar activity striking the surface here would be potentially poisonous to all life forms due to radiation.