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TREES REMEMBER AN ICE AGE SOLAR STORM: More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it happened again today. Spoiler alert: It could. Subfossil trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France [ ref ] The record-strong storm is described in the upcoming July 2025 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters . It occured in 12,350 BC and is classified as a "Miyake Event." Miyake Events are solar storms that make the Carrington Event of 1859 look puny. Trees "remember" them in their rings, which store the carbon-14 created by gargantuan storms. At least six Miyake Events have been discovered and confirmed since Fusa Miyake found the first one in 2012. The list so fa...