On: Tree rings offer insight into radiation storms

[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.