At this point it appears that the solar energy depends on the continual influx of hydrogen from outside of the solar system . . .
James M. McCanney, Principia Meteorologia, the Physics of Sun Earth Weather, 2nd Printing, (ISBN 0-9722186-5-3), 2004,, p. 96
In the American Midwest, people pay attention to the weather during the spring and early summer. It’s tornado season. Likewise with solar weather, observers pay attention to solar storms during the Sun’s 11-Year peak of its sunspot cycle. This past year, the Sun reached that peak in what was Solar Cycle #25. With the helio-magnetic reversal complete, some analysts are now saying that Solar Cycle #26 has begun and that we should witness a diminishing of solar activity.
I tend to agree.
Previous Alerts #8 and #9 warned of threatening conditions on the Sun, usually involving large sunspot groups. The solar storms in May got everyone’s attention.
Recent weeks have verified that planetary geometry does indeed impact solar weather. However, the triple conjunction which we warned about last summer did not produce cataclysmic results, unless you lived in the proximity impacted by the sudden uptick of earthquakes and dangerous typhoons. On the very day of the conjunction, we had the Cascadia quake and then rumblings of the New Madrid in the Mississippi River Valley. There were others worldwide.
The Jupiter Winds are real. Not only did the conjunction set off storms worldwide, the linear winds which McCanney describes as the telltale sign of their presence, was experienced in Wales, England and the European Continent.
The Planet Mercury continues to set off solar flaring as it progresses in its orbit. Numerous C and M Class flares continue, with one 48-hour period witnessing over 30 of them. Like the rattling of a machine gun, their frequency is impressive, but flares that are C and M Class are small ammunition.
Nothing really bad happened or could have happened.
The effects are ongoing worldwide, as Earth and our nearest neighbors enter the Jupiter-Parker spiral. Yet, it serves only to prove the causal link between Sun weather and Earth weather. The risk for cataclysmic impacts from this Solar Cycle has decreased to near zero.
As solar analysts have repeatedly said – and which we reiterated in every Alert – solar flaring has been puny in this solar cycle. The only reason why it has had a disproportionate impact on Earth is because of our planet’s weakening electromagnetic field. Earth is now experiencing its own polar reversal. Our attention needs to be directed toward the significance of that phenomenon because the geological record indicates that mass extinctions have occurred at every magnetic polar reversal on Earth. We need to answer why this is so because it is reasonable to believe that it will occur again:
The fossil record shows that a significant percentage of plant and animal species have died out concurrently with magnetic reversals, and that this is accompanied by periods of extensive volcanic activity, rapid stratification in lake beds, and crustal fracturing of the Earth’s mantle . . . which have occurred simultaneously on several occasions in Earth’s history.
James McCanney, “The Nature and Origin of Comets and the Evolution of Celestial Bodies, Part 3.” 1981, 1983, p. 47 (from Appendix section of Planet-X Comets & Earth Changes, 5th Printing, 2003)
So is the Sun running out of gas?
Solar science in recent decades has rendered obsolete the science textbooks you studied in high school and college. If you want something that is “state of the art,” get Ben Davidson’s textbooks from Suspicious Observers.
The Sun’s nuclear process does not occur in the core, but in its atmosphere. Professor McCanney saw this before anyone and speculated that the Sun, as do all stars, draw in their fuel from the galactic environment. Just as Earth weather draws its water source from the atmosphere, so does the Sun in a recycling of its heliosphere.
But that might not be the entire story. Just as Earth has vast oceans of water, so we are now told that the Sun has a vast ocean of liquid, metallic hydrogen. Consequently, we can’t be sure to what extent the Sun’s stellar fuel has been used up. But just as Earth has a water cycle of evaporation and condensation, we should expect that the Sun has its own “hydro” cycle. The Sun’s zodiacal disk, its return current sheet, and its stellar plasma shell – all such factors contribute to the weather cycles on the Sun.
While we do not have a “fuel gauge” for the Sun, it is quite obvious solar turbulence has diminished in recent decades. In comparison to the spectacular flaring of the 1990s and early 2000s, nothing in this solar cycle has even come close. McCanney believes the waves of comets during that time period had the effect of “discharging the solar capacitor” – an expression he uses frequently.
The intruding galactic “current sheet” which has invaded the heliosphere – a thing which Davidson relies on heavily for his predictions – it either has not yet reached the Sun, or it too has dissipated.
Could our solar system be moving through outer space . . . affected by this “vacuum domain” space between stars that we know almost absolutely nothing[?] If our sun did depend on a constant influx of new solar hydrogen to burn and we were about to head into [an] area devoid of such hydrogen, the sun all of a sudden could begin to cool uncontrollably. Or if the opposite happened when we moved into a region of hydrogen rich interstellar material with an associated increase in hydrogen input to the sun and it began to accelerate in its energy output . . .
McCanney, Principia, op cit, p. 96
Regardless, leave the boring details of solar weather to the scientists, and get on with your preparations for God’s Great Eschaton in 2046 AD, the peak of the next Gleissberg Cycle.
— JWS, 12/15/24
