ABSTRACT
It should not be surprising, therefore, to learn that relatively small disturbances in the sun’s activity can also affect humans in serious ways. Indeed, a large body of literature has been generated to indicate that there are robust connections between solar activity and human health. Interestingly, this connection is not reected in the thermal energy received at the earth’s surface. Terrestrial temperatures do not scale with solar activity. Rather the effects on human health are due to an intermediary between sun and earth, namely the solar wind that causes perturbations in the earth’s magnetic eld (geomagnetic eld [GMF]).
