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In early September of 2017, dramatic weather and seismic events
reminded human beings around the world of the awesome power of nature.
On September 7th, an 8.1 point earthquake struck off of the Pacific coast,
the largest quake in Mexico in a century.
Just one day previous, hurricane Irma, a tremendously powerful storm,
that originated near the Capo Verde islands,
reached its peak intensity with winds of 185 miles per hour.
The hurricanes Katia and Jose followed on Irma's heels
and less than two weeks after the Mexico quake,
a second tremor, this one 7.1 magnitude, struck the region.
Only two days after the second Mexico quake,
additional significant earthquakes occured at the pacific island of Vanuatu
and just off the north east coast of Japan, respectively.
Are such cliusters of natural disasters on our planet merely a coincidence?
The key to answering the question
is an understanding of the dynamic electromagnetic relationship
between the earth and the sun.
Increasingly mainstream scientific research has shown a dramatic connection,
completely unexpected in standard reasoning,
between intense solar activity and atmospheric and weather events on Earth.
For instance, in 2014, we reported on a scientific study which
showed intense and sustained increased lightning on Earth, following solar storms.
Is it then a coincidence that in early September
the sun erupted with its largest solar flare in 12 years.
For the past several years,
Thunderbolts colleague Ben Davidson, the founder of Suspicious Observers,
has produced voluminous research on space weather
and its link to numerous geophysical phenomena.
More recently, Ben and scientific colleagues
have worked to develop models of disaster prediction.
And in 2015, Ben and coauthors Kongpop U-Yen and Christopher Holloman
coauthored a peer-reviewed scientific paper on the connection
between solar activity and very large earthquakes.
In the first of this two-part presentation,
Ben begins discussing the evolution of its own investigation
and the growing body of evidence of the sun's effect
on climate, weather and earthquakes.
[Ben Davidson] It was really quite the start of September,
a bit of a bitter-sweet one which is not something we're not used to
when it comes to forecasting natural disasters when every time you have a success,
it is also a somber reality of what has just happened.
Back in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014,
a number of patterns between solar and other cosmic phenomena
and eathly phenomena, both meteorogical and seismic,
began to come together in a way that was not just obviousto a few people
but obvious to tens of thousands of people
who happened to be watching someone who got lucky enough
to pick 3 interesting things they wanted to show every day and that is;
what the sun was doing, what the earthquakes were doing
and what the weather was doing.
And sort of by accident, all of these patterns started to just show up.
In 2015, a few papers were published, and we are doing continued research still,
but we are finding that things are moving along and progressing
in the understanding of how the sun is, for lack of a better phrase,
electromagnetically forcing short-term weather events and seismic activity
in a number of different ways.
It's progressing so fast that really the only way we could think of
to share and get this out there for people to understand and improve,
is just to continue reporting on the stuff every day
and letting people know what the patterns are that we think they see
and that we think that we have seen as well..
Back in 2015, we were able to really bring this to the forefront because
after the sun had been relatively quiet,
for quite a long time and it was to say somewhat lackluster
start to the tropical season.
We had really an incredble uptake in solar activity in a span of just about a week.
It caused level 4, which is the second highest you can have,
level 4 out of 5 geomagnetic storms,
they actually shut down the airspace over New Zealand at that time
and for only the second time in recorded meteorological history,
6 tropical cyclones spun in the Pacific.
Really just, you know, to the world it was a great coincidence
but when it continued happening, you know
throughout the rest of the year into September and then again in November
and then in January as well, we began to look back in time and say,
hey this actually holds true!
And it's not just that the sun is having really grand activity,
it's that there is a change in the solar activity and so during solar maximum,
which happens every 11 years or so,
the sun is producing a lot of sunspots and a lot of solar flares
and if you are in the middle of that, maybe a drastic run of solar flares is normal
for that month or that year in time.
But when you look back to these periods where you have, you know,
these unexpected uptakes in solar activity,
or you are in a period where you expect to have high activity
and you have low activity for a while and then it picks back up.
It's that sort of ramping back up of that distribution of energy,
not only from the solar flare X-ray emission throughout the solar system
but from those, you know,
charged particle plasma cloud shockwaves that I mentioned earlier,
that travel throughout the solar system that are
powerful enough to create those incredible displays, take out satellites,
affect telecommunications, internet, things like that, and so
you have to really look at the energetic change
that is taking place throughout the solar system and
that is precisely what we had happen again, just at the beginning of September.
It actually began in the middle of August, when after literally weeks,
I would say maybe months without too much going on in terms of sunspot production
and definitely not much going on in terms of the solar flares
and the big blasts that go throughout the solar system.
We had a flurry of sunspots being produced
and the solar flares began to come back in the middle of August, right around that period.
It was not long after that Harvey, sort of, formed and took that run at Houston.
And then we had a little break in solar activity
and then we had a little break in the tropical systems but then,
just as fast as the break came, we had another sunspot that was born out of nowhere,
and it was born on the Sun on the Earth-facing disk while a very large and mature sunspot
sat very calmly and quietly and silently in the northern hemisphere.
This thing was born on the south, and it turned into a monster very very quickly,
fired a number of solar flares including the fourteenth largest, officially,
that has ever been seen and this is one of the largest upticks
that I have ever reported to be sure
and the last time we had a solar flare this large was 12 years ago.
We had another level 4 geomagnetic storm event, these things are quite rare
to be honest, and wouldn't you know it,
on the heels of that we have 3 systems spinning in the Atlantic.
Now I know that that's not comparable to the 6 systems we had in the Pacific
but you have to realize how small the Atlantic is by comparison
and in that you cannot have 6 systems lined up
at tropical cyclone strength in the Atlantic ocean at one time.
And so, here we see something interesting,
the sunspots really getting produced back in the middle of August,
when they started flaring, those sunspots disappeared out of view,
the day that hurricane Harvey shut north and the solar flare making sunspot
that was on the southern hemisphere during this triple hurricane,
set up what we had in the Atlantic basin, just at the start of September.
When it disappeared out of view, hurricane Irma ran north that day at Florida.
Now we got very, very lucky because it appears that about 24 hours later,
as the sunspot was out of view, it released a solar flare that was so powerful,
we were actually able to detect it from Earth even though the sunspot was not visible.
It had turned over to the back side, the far-side half of the sun
where, you know, Earth can't see from our perspective.
And as far as I know, this is the first time actually that one of the shockwave clouds,
blasted out via solar flare on the far side of the sun, has hit Earth.
It wasn't much, you know, terrible
because as I said the sunspot blasted it out on the far side
but the shockwave was so broad that it had effects
basically all throughout the solar system.
[Michael Goodspeed] In the following episode, we will discuss in greater detail
how and why it may be possible to predict earthquakes,
particularly the largest quakes, major storms and other dramatic environmental effects
based on a new understanding of the Sun-Earth electromagnetic connection.
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