War, Brains and Thunderbolts

[Sparky]

Peter, a very fine and informative paper! I do believe that the following sentence was overlooked during editing.

The Middle Eastern wind known as the Sharav literally sent many people bananas.

[mague]

Well, Spörer minimum and Mauder minimum do mark quite some history.

John A. Eddy (Jack Eddy) thought that sun is a variable star.

I am not sure if the data on the picture is correct. Still, those two minimum mark huge changes. DaVinci, Shakespeare, Salem witch trials, Galileo, fall of the native american culture south and north. The story of the Sengoku period basically describes the global situation back then.

There was the little ice age causing famine and there have been quite a few cases of black death.

It was one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the Sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think the Sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science.

Personally i think its not influencing all people in the same way...