[Interview] The Existential Threat of Solar Storms with Dr Benjamin Pope

How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better?

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• 00:00:00 Intro

• 00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope

• 00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms

• 00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms

• 00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer

• 00:26:48 Our place in the Universe

• 00:35:44 Outro

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