The Right Wing political parties like to say the sun is the real reason there is a warming planet.

They have a 'thing' about plasma flairs. This is a graph of the sun, our sun.

"The Sun 15-6-20" (click here)

Of interest is the green splotch in the center of the image. It is not a flair or plasma flair, it is a hole in the sun, otherwise known as coronal hole.

The right hand column of the image above illustrates the coronal holes.

The image to the right is enlargement of the image in the right hand column above. There is not one coronal hole there are two. No one ever discusses these because one might actually begin to understand the sun is not throwing all kinds of heat at the Earth.

When we look (click here) at imagery from SOHO or SDO at a wavelength of 28,4 nanometer, it shows us the hot outer layers of the atmosphere of the Sun, to be specific: the corona. The magnetic field of the Sun plays a great part in how we see this image. The bright areas shows us hot and dense gas that's captured by the magnetic field of the Sun. The dark and empty areas are places where the magnetic field of the Sun reaches into space so that hot gas can escape. These dark areas are coronal holes. They get their dark colour because there isn't enough hot material.

I hesitate to state these are cool places on the sun because there are no cool places on the sun, but, these manifestations on the surface are places were there are less dense gases. The sun can be looked at as a hot place that causes warming of Earth, but, that is not the case.