Solar Activity and Its Effect on Climate

The sun goes through cycles of high and low activity. However, for much of the past decade, it has been strangely quiet for longer than anyone has seen before. Now it is waking up and we are tipped to expect extreme solar activity in the next few years. Aside from the influence of the sun on climatic and seismic activity on Earth, NASA scientists warn that it may effect our electromagnetic infrastructure.

Here CNN explains the possible impacts.

Solar Activity to Peak 2012

Russian scientist Dr Alexai Dimitrios postulates that our entire solar system has entered an interstellar energy cloud that is exciting unusually high solar activity. Lawrence Joseph explains the possible implications of increasing solar activity that is currently approaching a long-term peak, set to climax in 2012. At the same time, huge cracks are opening up in our Earth's magnetic field, which normally protects us from solar radiation.

Any technology that relies on satellites may be particularly vulnerable, including mobile phones, telecommunications, fund transfers and military communications networks.

Other possible impacts include meterological effects, and global magnetic disturbances.