Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. This isn’t anything new.
   With all this blather about “climate change”, a number of scholars have started investigating old weather records. Specifically, they’re looking at the measurements that European explorers took during their voyages and comparing them with more recent data.
   Looking at the ancient literature for clues to past solar storms is part of what has come to be known as archaeoastronomy–in other words, conducting astronomy by examining the records and accounts of people who were alive at the time.
   Doing this might confirm the origins or behaviour of certain astronomical objects. If, say, an object is active in the x-ray spectrum, and there’s a mention of a nova in an ancient manuscript, it’s possible that the x-ray object is the remnant of that exploded star.
   Similarly, many naked-eye astronomers noted how certain variable stars changed brightness over time and their observations can be compared with what current-day scientists have noted.
   Even more recent observations can be used. For example, old photographic plates can provide information when compared with pictures taken of the same part of the sky.

2. We need a Solar Storm tax.

3. Just imagine if they same logic was applied to “CAGW/Climate Change”.
   There would have been no mass hysteria.

4. Chinese astronomical records have proved useful in the study of historical but otherwise unrecorded supernovae. There is also the advantage that, while European and Arab astronomers were frightened of any change in the heavens, the Chinese were not.