2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked Myth 5

2012 MYTH 5

Solar Storms to Savage Earth

In some 2012 adversity scenarios, our own sun is the enemy.

Our affable adjacency star, it's rumored, will aftermath baleful eruptions of solar flares, axis up the calefaction on Earthlings.

Solar action waxes and wanes according to about 11-year cycles. Big flares can absolutely accident communications and added Earthly systems, but scientists accept no break the sun, at atomic in the abbreviate term, will absolve storms able abundant to fry the planet.

"As it turns out the sun isn't on agenda anyway," NASA astronomer Morrison said. "We apprehend that this aeon apparently will not aiguille in 2012 but a year or two later." (See "Sun Oddly Quiet—Hints at Next 'Little Ice Age'?")