Earth-Sun Interactions

The Sun unleashes a lot of energy into the solar system, in the form of both radiation and charged particles. The Earth is constantly bathed in this energy, and responds accordingly.

Question: How does the Earth react to the solar wind?

Check today's space weather.

There are also interesting correlations between Earth phenomena and the solar cycle. For example:

Changes in sunspot activity and ocean temperature?

Changes in sunspot activity and global climate? The Maunder minimum:

Changes in sunspot activity and other bizarre things...