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This also appears to be happening in the southern hemisphere as well and growing brighter. My layman understanding is auroras are the result of coronal mass eje

This also appears to be happening in the southern hemisphere as well and growing brighter. My layman understanding is auroras are the result of coronal mass ejections interacting with Earth's atmosphere, but I don't recall these incidents being large enough to be so visible in the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously.

bsdooby 2y ago
Carrington comes to mind…
- idlewords 2y ago
  That had aurora visible in Florida and Hawaii. It's going to take a little more effort from the Sun to match that.
  - willmadden 2y ago
    Not for long. The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun.
    - twojacobtwo 2y ago
      > The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. Got any scientific sources for that claim? > I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun. Other than hardening our power grid to the effects of solar storms, what exactly could we do WRT the sun and the magnetic field? Also, given our serious lack of progress on climate change targets and the glacial pace (pun intended) at which it has been accepted as 1) real and 2) anthropogenic, I think saying 'too much time' is inaccurate.
      - vixen99 2y ago
        I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine) “Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we know gas will give us a chance to industrialize. No country has ever been developed by fancy wind and green hydrogen. Africans see Oil and Gas as a path to success and a solution to their problems. The demonization of oil and gas companies will not work.” and this is very far from an isolated opinion in the developing world. Given the amount of Western human capital applied to reducing dependence on fossil fuel it's a somewhat sobering experience to take a look at the Mauna Loa CO2 rate of increase. Can you see any significant decrease in recent years. I can't. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
      - willmadden 2y ago
        1) go to perplexity.ai 2) type in "Is the earth's magnetic field weakening?" 3) read the summary and click the sources if you don't believe it. Read this about your CO2. The CO2 in our atmosphere is already at a concentration where the narrow band of wavelengths CO2 absorbs is fully saturated. This means more CO2 isn't going to cause more warming, because there is no more light in its opaque wavelengths to absorb. Also the pattern of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere vs surface temperature does not indicated that CO2 causes warming, but that CO2 levels rise after warming has already occurred. Policy around CO2 is hindering human progress and has caused massive economic damage. The models were all wrong, and this paper explains the reason. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666496823000456 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266649682...
  - pyuser583 2y ago
    Current storm is visible in Florida and Southern Texas, per NOAA.
    - vundercind 2y ago
      Like, visible visible? I’m a lot farther north than that and if I hadn’t known there was something going on, I’d not have noticed it. It kinda shows up on camera, but naked eye viewing is not even worth a walk to the nearest window. Nothing to see, really.
      - Scoundreller 2y ago
        I’m also guessing light pollution was less of a thing in 1859
      - idlewords 2y ago
        Having your eyes dark-adapted (even a bit) makes a big difference. Here (Maine) I couldn't see anything out the window, or much of anything stepping outside, but after two minutes could see large-scale aurora across the entire sky, despite being near a bunch of streetlights and passing cars.
notfish 2y ago
This is the biggest storm since 2003! We hit a G5 on the SWPC geomagnetic storm reading, and my team had to power down components on our satellites to keep them safe!
- dgellow 2y ago
  Now that’s a badass sentence. What is your team working on?
  - kortilla 2y ago
    Based on the about: “Code monkey at the elongated muskrat’s not-earth corporation” Starlink
    - throwaway290 2y ago
      Based on lack of response, starshield or some other defense or spy sats
- madaxe_again 2y ago
  While I was happily posting photos of the ionic chaos over your network throughout. Nice one.

bsdooby 2y ago

Carrington comes to mind…

idlewords 2y ago
That had aurora visible in Florida and Hawaii. It's going to take a little more effort from the Sun to match that.
- willmadden 2y ago
  Not for long. The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun.
  - twojacobtwo 2y ago
    > The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. Got any scientific sources for that claim? > I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun. Other than hardening our power grid to the effects of solar storms, what exactly could we do WRT the sun and the magnetic field? Also, given our serious lack of progress on climate change targets and the glacial pace (pun intended) at which it has been accepted as 1) real and 2) anthropogenic, I think saying 'too much time' is inaccurate.
    - vixen99 2y ago
      I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine) “Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we know gas will give us a chance to industrialize. No country has ever been developed by fancy wind and green hydrogen. Africans see Oil and Gas as a path to success and a solution to their problems. The demonization of oil and gas companies will not work.” and this is very far from an isolated opinion in the developing world. Given the amount of Western human capital applied to reducing dependence on fossil fuel it's a somewhat sobering experience to take a look at the Mauna Loa CO2 rate of increase. Can you see any significant decrease in recent years. I can't. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
    - willmadden 2y ago
      1) go to perplexity.ai 2) type in "Is the earth's magnetic field weakening?" 3) read the summary and click the sources if you don't believe it. Read this about your CO2. The CO2 in our atmosphere is already at a concentration where the narrow band of wavelengths CO2 absorbs is fully saturated. This means more CO2 isn't going to cause more warming, because there is no more light in its opaque wavelengths to absorb. Also the pattern of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere vs surface temperature does not indicated that CO2 causes warming, but that CO2 levels rise after warming has already occurred. Policy around CO2 is hindering human progress and has caused massive economic damage. The models were all wrong, and this paper explains the reason. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666496823000456 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266649682...
- pyuser583 2y ago
  Current storm is visible in Florida and Southern Texas, per NOAA.
  - vundercind 2y ago
    Like, visible visible? I’m a lot farther north than that and if I hadn’t known there was something going on, I’d not have noticed it. It kinda shows up on camera, but naked eye viewing is not even worth a walk to the nearest window. Nothing to see, really.
    - Scoundreller 2y ago
      I’m also guessing light pollution was less of a thing in 1859
    - idlewords 2y ago
      Having your eyes dark-adapted (even a bit) makes a big difference. Here (Maine) I couldn't see anything out the window, or much of anything stepping outside, but after two minutes could see large-scale aurora across the entire sky, despite being near a bunch of streetlights and passing cars.

notfish 2y ago

This is the biggest storm since 2003! We hit a G5 on the SWPC geomagnetic storm reading, and my team had to power down components on our satellites to keep them safe!

dgellow 2y ago
Now that’s a badass sentence. What is your team working on?
- kortilla 2y ago
  Based on the about: “Code monkey at the elongated muskrat’s not-earth corporation” Starlink
  - throwaway290 2y ago
    Based on lack of response, starshield or some other defense or spy sats
madaxe_again 2y ago
While I was happily posting photos of the ionic chaos over your network throughout. Nice one.