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Massive solar storm hit earth 14,299-14,300 years ago. Corresponding with Older Dryas period of rapid cooling.

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Massive solar storm hit earth 14,300 years ago (near the end of the Pleistocene). Timing confirmed by subfossil trees in France and ice cores in Greenland. The solar storm appears to correlate with the start of a period of rapid cooling known as the Older Dryas.

 

News article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/11/largest-solar-storm-research-earth/

 

Journal article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206

 

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