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Matt Fulkerson

Tue Jan 30 09:31:56 -0800 2007

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Solar flares create a nice show and disrupt communications, are are largely irrelevant from a total energy (or average power) perspective.From http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/flare.htm,

As the magnetic energy is being released, particles, including electrons, protons, and heavy nuclei, are heated and accelerated in the solar atmosphere. The energy released during a flare is typically on the order of 10²⁷ ergs per second. Large flares can emit up to 10³² ergs of energy. This energy is ten million times greater than the energy released from a volcanic explosion. On the other hand, it is less than one-tenth of the total energy emitted by the Sun every second.

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Skyler Visconti

Tue Jan 30 12:32:27 -0800 2007
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True, the amount of energy a solar flare creates is very little than that of the entire sun, but we're talking about that solar flare's affects when hitting our atmosphere directly. The sun however doesn't hit our atmosphere directly unless it is through a CME. If you're going to continue this debate please speed up your pace. You're still behind and have yet to argue the point I mentioned earlier about Forbush Decrease.

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Matt Fulkerson

Tue Jan 30 17:59:30 -0800 2007
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I have no opinion on the effect of cosmic rays on climate.

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Skyler Visconti

Wed Jan 31 00:18:20 -0800 2007
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Then why have we spent the last couple of days debating them? You cited articles about the sun and it's proton discharges, but skipped the issues of other particles hitting our planet, and now you have no opinion? Hopefully you know those protons are waves that are part of cosmic rays and you're not just blinded by light being a particle.