". . . 12,350 BC is the biggest Miyake Event yet. It produced a hailstorm of solar particles 500 times greater than the most intense solar particle storm recorded by modern satellites in 2005.
Yes: people's intuitions about probabilities tend to be poor.
I had not known about the Lindy Effect before.
I think this sets a new record for irony.
Detecting a shift in the trend is no easy task.
Related: "Look at the Data, Not the Narrative".
Key sentence: "I think it’s fair to say that children born of a consanguineous union are more likely to inherit a medical condition, especially if their parents are very close relatives, but that the problem is not as bad as Hollywood pretends it is for shock value."
Encouraging but we have to wait for a while to see if these indicators last.
"Consider that new evidence, presented by Tarduno is this deeply researched backgrounder, shows that some 575 to 565 million years ago the Earth’s magnetic field all but collapsed, and remained collapsed for a period of tens of millions of years. If that time range piques your interest, it’s probably because this is coincident with a period known as the Avalon explosion, when macroscopic animal life, rich in complexity, begins to appear. And now we’re in the realm of evolution being spurred by magnetic field changes."
If if proves out this would be good news. That's because both dark matter and dark energy sound like awkward kludges to the theory.
See also "Half The Universe's Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It."
Roger Pielke, Jr. writes that the climate warmists are readying another big scare.