Hello Everyone,

I just saw this article and thought it was very interesting. Apparently in the next couple months the sun's magnetic fields are going to flip. How this is going to actually affect earth I am unsure but this solar cycle is a natural cycle of the sun and has happened many times in the past. 

 

http://www.space.com/22271-sun-magnetic-field-flip.html

 

Hello Everyone,

I just saw this article and thought it was very interesting. Apparently in the next couple months the sun's magnetic fields are going to flip. How this is going to actually affect earth I am unsure but this solar cycle is a natural cycle of the sun and has happened many times in the past. 

 

http://www.space.com/22271-sun-magnetic-field-flip.html

From the linked article this polarity swap occurs roughly every 11 years, so it's pretty frequent.  Compare this to the polarity shift of the Earth's poles, which is on average every 450,000 years.

You know what will happen? Nothing. The last time this happened was in 2002. Sure, there might be occurrences of solar flares, or even low grade coronal mass ejections, but for the most part, the polarity will swap, and nothing will happen.