LOL LIN WOOD GOT BANNED
What a legend
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NEW: U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger resigns (Bloomberg).
But dated Jan. 5?
CMEs. 2 of 'em. Particle injection from class 1 ejections would add both mass and energy, but I repeat myself.
There were two weak CMEs, unusually simultaneous, within the last week. They take 3-4 days to hit the magnetosphere, which directs the release to the poles. Normal stuff.
Start of a new Maunder Minimum, I fear. Lack of sunspots from 2010-2012 started a new, different energy, solar cycle. Same thing happened in 1911-13 and led to the long winter of 1913-14, as noted by Shackleton (Nov. '13, South Pole) at one end, and Titanic (Apr. '14, N. Atlantic) at the other. That was a 30 year cooling cycle. Maunder's was ~200 years, ending in 1450 or so.
I prefer the former, but I have no clue what we're going to get. New time in Astro and Geophysics.