SOLAR CLIMATE CHANGE COULD CAUSE ROUGHER SPACE WEATHER- A predicted weakening in solar activity and the Sun's magnetic fields would cause an increase in space radiation, Galactic Cosmic Rays, and more damaging space weather events according to a new study.

"Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand solar maximum is one of 24 during the last 9,300 years and suggest the high levels of solar magnetic field seen over the space age will reduce in future.

This decline will cause a reduction in sunspot numbers and explosive solar events, but those events that do take place could be more damaging."

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