Newscientist.com: (via Drudge)
It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible. The surface of the sun is a roiling mass of plasma - charged high-energy particles - some of which escape the surface and travel through space as the solar wind. From time to time, that wind carries a billion-tonne glob of plasma, a fireball known as a coronal mass ejection (see "When hell comes to Earth"). If one should hit the Earth's magnetic shield, the result could be truly devastating.
Stanley and I chatted by email this week, discussing the possibility of climate change as an eschatelogical event. Scanning the Newscientist piece it's clear that there are a number of ways civilization could end in fire.
Along with this possibility of course. And then there's the old fashioned way.
Makes a half degree celcius temp rise per decade predicted by climate changers sorta, well, tame by comparison.
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