Interesting, yet another cycle peaking currently (in addition to three other economic cycles talked about by Ray Dalio). It isn't surprising that the Sun dominates everything, it's an incredible amount of energy and gravity stabilizing our planetary system. A Carrington Event would be disastrous---we've insulated ourselves pretty well against many calamities: insects, drought, disease, and such but we are incredibly vulnerable to a disruption from a solar flare. I'm sure military hardware, government and AI data centers, high security things like that are 'foil-hatted' but our electric utilities, autos, trucking, computers, phones, etc. can all be damaged, disrupting food supply, heating/AC and medical needs first and foremost. One can only hope we're on the dark side of the planet when it blows through.
I've been following an amateur meteorologist who swears up and down we're entering a new 40 year solar cycle where the US at least will be much colder and wetter---and the SW US' long drought can be explained by the previous solar cycle, not CO2. Well, I take it with a large grain of salt, it doesn't help that he appears to be a right-winger but I'm ordering a few barrels of popcorn to watch the next few years environmentally and economically, lol.
Thanks, seems like a lot is about to change or has the potential to. And yeah, if people freaked out about toilet paper during covid, what if the grid went down for a few days.
That's interesting, I haven't heard about that. I'll have to check it out. I have heard things like the crop yields may go down during solar cycle minimum, so agriculture prices (and stocks) may do well. I do think weather and climate are not as well understood as they seem.
Yeah, people would probably first think of astrology, but I believe these studies give us some insight as to how these sun cycles actually affect human action.
I haven't found any research on it yet, but I've been trying myself to keep track of geomagnetic storms and see if the volatility in the short term is affected.
Interesting, yet another cycle peaking currently (in addition to three other economic cycles talked about by Ray Dalio). It isn't surprising that the Sun dominates everything, it's an incredible amount of energy and gravity stabilizing our planetary system. A Carrington Event would be disastrous---we've insulated ourselves pretty well against many calamities: insects, drought, disease, and such but we are incredibly vulnerable to a disruption from a solar flare. I'm sure military hardware, government and AI data centers, high security things like that are 'foil-hatted' but our electric utilities, autos, trucking, computers, phones, etc. can all be damaged, disrupting food supply, heating/AC and medical needs first and foremost. One can only hope we're on the dark side of the planet when it blows through.
I've been following an amateur meteorologist who swears up and down we're entering a new 40 year solar cycle where the US at least will be much colder and wetter---and the SW US' long drought can be explained by the previous solar cycle, not CO2. Well, I take it with a large grain of salt, it doesn't help that he appears to be a right-winger but I'm ordering a few barrels of popcorn to watch the next few years environmentally and economically, lol.
Thanks, seems like a lot is about to change or has the potential to. And yeah, if people freaked out about toilet paper during covid, what if the grid went down for a few days.
That's interesting, I haven't heard about that. I'll have to check it out. I have heard things like the crop yields may go down during solar cycle minimum, so agriculture prices (and stocks) may do well. I do think weather and climate are not as well understood as they seem.
Yeah, people would probably first think of astrology, but I believe these studies give us some insight as to how these sun cycles actually affect human action.
I haven't found any research on it yet, but I've been trying myself to keep track of geomagnetic storms and see if the volatility in the short term is affected.