Danny Jones Podcast
#365 - Space Weather Expert: Pole Shifts, NASA Cover-ups & Super Flares | Stefan Burns
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the significance of the upcoming solar storm?
All right, Stefan, thank you for coming, dude. I'm excited to talk to you. Great. I see my ex feed is littered with these types of posts. There's a sunspot, there's a solar flare, there's a double solar flare, there's all these things happening, these coronal mass ejections that are going to cause a cataclysm or something like this, and nothing ever happens.
Yeah, there's this interesting, because I cover this in my videos and I talk about it and it's just an interest of mine because originally I was focused on the geology and then the geophysics of the earth and naturally I had to start studying the space environment to understand what was happening here to a better degree.
And so as a result, I learned about this and I make a video saying, hey guys, we have a solar storm coming in. This is the forecast. Let's say we do see it launch, right? It's like guarantee we're gonna get hit. We have a G3 storm. A lot of people will be like,
oh here he is calling for the end of the world again it's like well guys i never said that it's just like this we have a solar storm coming in but there's something about the the mix of it being epic in scale because it is a massive explosion on the sun which is many times the size of the earth so this is fundamentally epic in scale paired with also a lack of education as to these things and even adding a third of some people taking these events and then
twisting them into a doomsday narrative and having done that for a long time, that creates this convergence of people thinking that the moment there's a solar flare, we're all doomed. But that is like, we could have what we call a super flare and we don't know how that would affect the earth. But in terms of, is that going to happen tomorrow?
Or we would need a gigantic sunspot, like unbelievably large. And we would have clear optics on that. And we're not seeing that right now, but it could happen.
What is the biggest solar event that has impacted the earth the most, like in recorded history that you're aware of?
Yeah, there was a really big, well, this is kind of a complex question, but in 1859, there was a Carrington event that was a really big solar flare and coronal mass ejection impact and a really strong geomagnetic storm. We've had other Carrington level solar storm impacts. since then, 1872, 1921. We kind of got lucky in 1972.
It didn't have the right magnetic field configuration, but it was strong enough to set off these landmines at Vietnam. Whoa. Yes, that's an interesting one because they just deployed these landmines off the coast of Vietnam. Then we had this super fast solar storm impact. But again, the magnetic field wasn't conducive or really strong.
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Chapter 2: What was the Carrington Event and its impact?
Yeah. It'd be a big one because Mars is still close to the sun. There's also like the fact that I don't think a lot of us realize just how close the earth is to the sun. Right. One astronomical unit. We think Mars and Venus and Mercury are closer and they are. But Jupiter's at 5. That's actually still very close. Saturn's at 10. Uranus is at 20. Neptune's at 30 astronomical units.
It drops off quite a bit when you go that far out. But when you're at 1 AU, you're getting like really walloped. So we have a strong magnetic field on Earth. It's actually very strong if you look at kind of the solar system scale. Mercury's field is 1 100th the strength. It's very, very, very minor. Venus doesn't have a magnetic field. Mars doesn't have one.
Why do we have such a strong magnetic field?
Because we have a lot of internal processes within the planet. Our planet is very active and alive, whereas Mars seems to be dead geologically for the most part. They did register like a magnitude 4.6 earthquake on Mars in 2022, I believe. So that's pretty big, but you know, we get like magnitude nine fives and probably larger.
but we have a lot of active processes and there's a lot of the research in geophysics across time has been trying to figure out how earth has been able to maintain its energy and heat for billions of years. And so there's, it's kind of like earth in many ways is a macrocosm of life. We don't really know how it keeps going and replicating, but it does.
And that generates the magnetic field, these geo dynamo processes. And I think there's probably some other factors involved as well.
Interesting. So for people who aren't familiar, can you basically lay out what geophysics is, what the idea of this is and how you got into all this stuff?
Yeah, geophysics is just examining the physics of the Earth. And you could broadly apply this to the other planets as well. Maybe the quantifier geo goes away at that point, I'm not sure. Um, there's a lot of energetic processes unfolding on the planet.
A classic example is that there's an earthquake and there's some just event that occurs underground, a fault slips, you have a movement in the crust and that releases a tremendous amount of energy as seismic waves. This is sound energy that radiates out. There's broadly three different types. You have P waves, S waves, and surface waves.
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Chapter 3: What are Miyake events and how do they relate to super flares?
I mean.
It's also fascinating the amount of minerals and natural gases you can extract from the earth. How do we come up with that? How did geologists come up with the hypothesis that like, this is where we can go drill for oil?
Yeah, that's mostly based off of seismic reflection, marine seismic reflection mapping. So they'll take a boat out and they have a whole bunch of seismographs, basically like these seismic tow. Well, these tow cables where they have a whole bunch of seismographs in them. And then they have this massive like sound pulse, like sonar pulse.
They'll drag it like under the water.
No, it's not the surface. Okay. Uh, though they can be submerged at depth a little bit too, but generally they're floating at the surface and then they're using these massive sonar pulses. And as a result, you'll get these reflections off of the different layers. Yeah.
Oh, whoa. So it goes into the rock, into the, into the surface, like, like underneath the ocean floor.
Yeah, hydrophones is the better term to use. But yeah, you'll get first reflection off of the boundary between water and sediment, and then you'll get different reflections off different layers. And those are pretty easy to categorize. So there's a lot of processing that goes into it. But if you get...
good data the cross sections are really quite illustrative um and you can see what's hard rock what's uh sediment for example there you see that like kind of sediment cap in the in the valley but you can use that to uh this is all like sound type stuff like sound technology Yeah, that's all seismic.
So you're not really using much in terms of like, for example, magnetic field exploration for oil and gas. It's almost all seismic. Sometimes you'll do some mapping with like tellurics, like magnetotellurics, but that's typically on land. But there's all these different tools that we have. We can look at gravity and gravitational anomalies and the variations to understand the subsurface.
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Chapter 4: How do geophysical processes affect Earth's magnetic field?
Okay. Because it accelerated up to 60 kilometers per year. Now it's down to 40, but still very fast. But the magnetic poles moving are also an indication of what's happening at the magnetic field. And then you can measure specific components of the magnetic field because you have like a regular bar magnets called the dipole. So there's two poles to it, the north and south.
Earth's magnetic field is not exactly a dipole. It's about 90, 95% dipole, but there's these higher order modes. So like a quadrupole, which is interesting because it brings the magnetic field in at the equator as well, not just looping. like this from north to south, but a quadrupole actually brings it in at the equator as well. It's four lobes.
That makes up a good portion of Earth's magnetic field as well. That's a good graphic. Which one? That one or the other one in white. To the right, that one right there. That's a good one as well.
Oh, cool.
And so what happens during excursions is the dipole field strength diminishes greatly and actually goes away. And what we're left with, this is what the evidence suggests, is that then we're left with the quadrupole, the octopoles, the higher order modes, which make up only 5%, 10% of the overall strength. Those don't seem to change. Then the dipole reemerges in the reverse polarity.
And with an excursion, it aborts. So it may get all the way to that flip, but then it reemerges with the polarity it had. Whereas with the full reversal, it will actually take on this new polarity. But that dipole field needs to go away for that to occur. And so then all you're left with is a quadrupole.
And that would have really interesting implications in terms of space weather, because now you have the magnetic cusp also not only in the high latitude zones, but also at the equator.
so uh anywhere along the equator to get blasted with uh solar energy at that moment in time whereas right now it's funneled mostly to uh you know the arctic circle the antarctic circle that's why they see crazy aurora up in northern europe for example yeah or we we don't really get aurora down the south atlantic anomaly but we get a lot of those high energy particles because the magnetic field is weak there
All right, we need to talk about those so-called mushroom gummies you see at all the smoke shops and gas stations around town. Because most of that stuff is no good. It's not mushrooms. It's mystery chemicals dressed up with wizard art. There's a wave of fake Amanita products out there.
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Chapter 5: How is climate volatility affecting our weather patterns?
Let's see what the- Like classic ancient Greece. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 500 BC.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the classical period all around like the Near East and that part of the world.
Yeah, it doesn't go far enough back.
It doesn't go far enough back. Huh. I wonder why.
I've seen some graphs though.
I mean, I probably- We're in a cooling period now, right?
Yeah.
Well, overall, the Earth is warming. But in general, I think the safest thing that you could say is that our climate and weather is becoming more volatile. So we're seeing- Really? Yeah, I mean, for example, in December, there is a huge heat anomaly over the United States. Though like the Yukon, Canada, Alaska, that was excluded. They had a huge cold snap there.
Also like Maine was quite a bit cold. But like here and also Texas and a lot of the heartland, the U.S., had tons of temperature records broken for December. Meanwhile, Moscow, like right now, has had one of the biggest like polar blizzard cyclones of all time. And the snow is piled up like crazy. So overall global temperatures are going up.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of magnetic pole shifts?
Because if that was all of a sudden to go away, Earth would all of a sudden be very cold, dark. It would not be a fun place, right? It would change everything. If we're close to the sun, we receive a lot of light radiation from the sun. That's our total solar irradiance, about 1,370 watts per square meter of energy coming in. That changes across the solar cycle.
Total solar irradiance doesn't change that much. We can say it goes from like 1,370 to 1,374 in terms of total solar radiance because most of that energy is infrared, optical, or visual light, and then also UV. But we get distinct changes in X-ray light, extreme ultraviolet light, also radio frequency light goes up quite a bit in intensity during solar maximum versus solar minimum.
But that's the main driver of the climate. Then there's what's happening with the Earth and her own changes, let's say, like water vapor and the atmosphere and the hydrological cycle. And then there's what are we doing to alter those systems with anthropogenic greenhouse gases and stuff. And for some reason, some people are like, oh, it's just CO2 and our sun doesn't affect the climate at all.
And then other people are like, oh, CO2 does nothing. It's just the sun. It's like... It's a combination of all these factors.
Right.
And they're probably going to vary in their significance at times too.
Sure. Of course we contribute to the carbon in the atmosphere, like the CO2. Of course we contribute to it. Is it enough to literally like create a new ice age? or not a new ice, but like to warm up the earth and melt the ice caps to where like, it's going to change the earth. Like, I don't know, but it's just, like I said, it's just so volatile and there's no middle ground in this kind of stuff.
And it's hard to like hear a nuanced take on what's really happening. I see, I see articles all the time that the, the ice caps are growing, right? Like the, the ice sheets are getting bigger right now. And you know, Depending on what website you go to, you can find a different scientific take on what's happening.
Well, yeah, I mean, December would be a good example because some outlets are probably reporting about the huge cold snap that hit the Yukon and parts of the U.S. Meanwhile, other outlets would only cover the huge warming trend that hit the heartland and most of the United States. And, you know, Europe's a whole different place, but other parts of the globe. But yeah, it's.
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Chapter 7: How do ancient civilizations relate to modern scientific theories?
Yeah, oceanic circulation.
The problem with all this shit is that it's just so entangled with money. You know?
Yeah. Yeah.
There's all these little financial entanglements in science that make it screwy, which sucks. It's with everything.
Yeah, money's kind of a crazy thing, which is, I mean, I'm not perfect and I've made mistakes and I'm sure in 10 years I'll look back at certain things I've said or thoughts I had and as new data comes out, I'll be like, okay, this is my new revised idea on this. But I do like the fact that I've taken myself
out of any kind of constricting influence by just kind of becoming independent and by educating others publicly online, people like that enough that it keeps me afloat and great. I think we need more independent voices. I think we need more independent data collection networks.
One of my long-term life goals at this moment in time is to create a global observatory for geophysical and solar data and more. So we're not reliant just on government organizations. One of your questions earlier is, where do I track this stuff? And we get a lot of great data feeds from NASA and NOAA and other space and government organizations.
Um, but there's often political interests there and conflicts of interest. And I mean, there's some things that just sometimes you're like, why are they not speaking the truth about this or why are they not addressing this thing that occurred?
Why are they assassinating plasma physicists?
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Chapter 8: What insights do Schumann resonances provide about consciousness?
I don't know what to think. There's just so many crazy takes on that MIT guy. He was an MIT plasma physicist, right?
Yeah, Italian guy. And I think he was like 43, 44.
And he was on the cusp of like, he had recently cracked something, I heard.
So he was, I mean, I know the full story, but he was the director of plasma and fusion science at MIT. Right, plasma and fusion. And he was specifically looking into understanding turbulence in fusion reactors. because plasma is really interesting. It's a four-stated matter. It's the most energetic form of matter because it's highly ionized.
And therefore you're playing with a lot more electromagnetism than you are with solids, liquids, or gases. And plasma doesn't really like to cooperate or behave. So the whole nuclear fusion discussion is interesting because when you create plasma, it often likes to bend back in on itself and undergo these instabilities, and it doesn't really like to cooperate.
So with a fusion reactor, they're effectively creating this plasma and they want to condense it down to a point where there's such a high concentration density of these ions like hydrogen that they eventually do run into each other and then, you know, fuse to form a helium. But if you can't get the thing to condense down the first place, you're not gonna have success with your fusion reactor.
And so plasma seems to resist these dynamics. And so you need really powerful magnetic fields to confine it, but plasma is also generating its own magnetic fields, and so you create all this turbulence. So again, I don't know this guy's full life work, but he was specifically looking into plasma turbulence.
And that would be a very important thing to understand as it relates to fusion and being successful with that. And I read something about it being like a personal vendetta, the guy who murdered him. But dude, I don't believe anything nowadays after the whole, especially like with that Boeing whistleblower situation and the guy gets whacked or, you know, I just saw this.
There was multiple guys who got whacked with the Boeing thing, wasn't there? Like a bunch of like key witnesses that were getting ready to do depositions and like the day before they died.
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