On Mar 8, 5:07*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:
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."http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/05/earthsweak-magnetic-field-helped-s...

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

Because that's just something you made up.

* * * * Yousuf Khan

My goodness, are we having another bad day. week, month, year on
Usenet?

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ge..._Fail_999.html
"In the recent 20 years, the planet's magnetic field intensity has
decreased by 1.7%, and in South Atlantic by 10%. In the last two
hundred years, the Earth's magnetic field has seen a 10% decrease in
intensity."

That's the 20 year average of 0.085%/yr. 2010 could easily be 0.1%
loss.

~ BG