Tree rings offer insight into destructive radiation storms
This Proceedings A paper has applied cutting-edge statistics to data from millennia-old trees to find out more about radiation ‘storms’. Researchers reconstructed the global carbon cycle using tree ring radiocarbon data - the results of this modeling gave researchers an extremely detailed picture of a number of radiation events. The research suggests that, based on available data, there's roughly a one percent chance of another radiation storm occurring within the next decade.
