# Solar History Author: [[Sasha Dobler]] ## Summary The book examines a connection between grand solar cycles (sunspot counts averaged over whole ~11yr sunspot cycles) and man-made deaths, wars and revolutions. It discusses different potential reasons for why this might be the case and what other cycles and climatic effects there are. ## Review First, on the rating, the ideas and lines of thought were very provocative and interesting and are worth 4 or 5 stars. But the format, presentation and meandering between topics were worth two stars. To the author: you need to clean up the format and presentation. Secondly make the topics flow together. Although some of the political discussion was interesting and made me think about topics I had never considered before, I also often found myself wondering "how did we get here". There were too many tangents. With that said, I have bought the author's second book knowing that it will suffer from the same formatting issues but I appreciate the ideas (I am also interested in geomagnetic and electric impacts on biology and behaviour) and independence of thought and want to support it. I think most people would ignore a book like this because they are afraid to stray too far from the group accepted norms of inquiry but I am grateful for reading it because it introduced me to interesting thoughts and further reading. By cross-referencing with other work on revolutions (Goldstone) I would think the connection would come via three different channels: the effect of cosmic radiation on human biology and behaviour; the effects of GCRs on climate through clouds and (possibly) volcanoes; lastly, the creation and propagation of disease either directly through cosmic radiation regulated by the sun's magnetic field, or indirectly as a result of climate. ## Related - [[Electromagnetic impacts on the Body]] - [[The Chilling Stars]] - [[Revolutions]] - [[Controversial Science]]