On Mar 7, 3:26*pm, dlzc wrote:
Dear Brad Guth:

On Mar 7, 1:02*pm, Brad Guth wrote: On Mar 6, 6:44*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:

Earth's weak magnetic field helped Sun to steal water
from planet's early atmosphere - Oneindia News
"Scientists have discovered that the Earth's magnetic
field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as
it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a
strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun,
likely stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere.

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Then why are we still in the cycle of losing our
protective geomagnetic force and its
magnetosphere at roughly 0.1%/year?

What is increased, can decrease again.

David A. Smith

In other words, either way you don't care.

~ BG