It is important for people to understand the electrical connection between the Earth and Sun. When I tell people that it is the sun that is the source of the strange weather we have been having, I get a puzzled look in response. I can tell that people have a problem equating and linking the two. It's easy to understand why. We are here and the sun is out there.
Simple electricity is the key to the understanding.
The same science we use everyday to generate power by the use of alternators, generators, transformers, radio and TV are the same forces at work between the Earth and Sun. I think people can more easily understand and make the connection when the phenomena is explained in electromagnetic terms. Particle or quantum physics is just too complicated for the average person to completely understand. It never stops. Every day a new and smaller particle is discovered.