Tree rings offer insight into radiation storms

[wglb]

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tree-insight-devastating-storms.html

[asicsp]

Dupe from another news source: "Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of ‘radiation storms’"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33340066 (135 points | 3 days ago | 88 comments)

[possiblydrunk]

Dr. Who - In the forest of the Night (12th Doctor) [1]

1. https://www.tor.com/2014/10/26/doctor-who-in-the-forest-of-t...

[Maursault]

> Tree rings offer insight into radiation storms

On this mysterious and obscure power of the tree rings, unless hidden in unpublished drafts, Tolkien did not elaborate.

[prvc]

Any implications for radio-carbon dating?

[perihelions → prvc]

It's already accounted for. Radiocarbon dating is calibrated to historical carbon-14 ratios measured from tree rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Calibration

[aaron695 → prvc]

Yes.

Probably a better article 3 days ago here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33340066

It's very interesting. It's been known for a while but they are narrowing the possible reasons with this new research.

Given it's perhaps a pandemic level of destruction, with 8% chance during a person lifetime and actually fun to research you'd think more would done.

[MeteorMarc]

Is there a timeline graph of these events somewhere?

[willmadden]

Related, read the “Adam and Eve Story” by Henry Chan and check out suspicious0bservers.org.

The magnetic fields of the earth and sun are linked. I’m worried about the weakening and rapidly shifting poles of earth’s magnetic field. I think it could be a warning of an event with our sun.

[deepmauka → willmadden]

Source?

[bburrito → deepmauka]

Whatch the guy’s daily YouTube updates. He provides new science discussion daily and includes source material for all items.