[5thGenTexan]

"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."

In other words, we have NO IDEA the power of the sun and therefore it's influence on the weather cycles of it's planets. But we DO KNOW your SUV and COW FARTS are killing the earth.

[txhurl]

Right about that time - well, two months after that time - I noticed my plants and landscape all around were out of sorts.

hmm

[wastedyears]

It makes me sad that until that happened, astrophysicists firmly believe that activity on the sun was localized, and that massive occurrences couldn’t happen.

My, how small the human brain thinks.