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Can Solar Storms Cause Wildfires?

astroengine writes "In the wake of recent solar activity, some space cadets were very quick to point out a causal link between geomagnetic storms and the wildfires currently ravaging the landscape surrounding Moscow. Of course, this is patently false. But is there a scenario when the onset of a solar storm could have secondary effects, sparking fires in already arid regions? Possibly. What's more, it already happened, 150 years ago."

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  1. Wildfires = global warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There has just been so much global warming because of global warming pollution like CO2 and the earth has heated up and temperature averages are at a record high, that's drying up the land and causing wildfires. It's not solar storms.

    (Ignore, of course, the fact that global warming is only a theory at this point, but whatever.)

  2. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post!

    Frosty piss - It's water from your dick, nigga!

  3. Re:Power lines. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe if Australians trimmed back their bushes back more there would be less burning sensation to deal with. Or you could try a good crab shampoo.

  4. Re:Power lines. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, if the enviromental nazis just let controlled burns continue like the natives practiced for millenia (ie. if we 'trimmed our bush') we wouldn't have the magnitude of devestation that hits so often.