Zero Hedge
Not all solar flares are Earth-facing, but it is only a matter of time before the next big one cripples modern society. Then what?
Scientists from Caltech Astronomy
examined the great solar flare of 1990 that occurred in active region
NOAA 6063. The eruption and subsequent shockwave were so massive that
scientist decided to write a report on their findings titled “Tangential
Field Changes in the Great Flare of 1990 May 24.”
The region on the sun gave rise to a dangerous X9.3 flare, which was
visible in white light. The flare was observed by several observatories,
including the Big Bear Solar Observatory at Caltech.
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Activist Post
In this month's issue of Physics World,
Ashley Dale from the University of Bristol warns of the "catastrophic"
and "long-lasting" impacts of "solar super-storms" and the dangers we
face if the threat continues to go unnoticed.
Dale, who was a member of an international task force – dubbed SolarMAX –
set up to identify the risks of a solar storm and how its impact could
be minimized, explains how it is only a matter of time before an
exceptionally violent solar storm is propelled towards Earth.
Such a
storm would wreak havoc with our communication systems and power
supplies, crippling vital services such as transport, sanitation and
medicine.
"Without power, people would struggle to fuel their cars at petrol
stations, get money from cash dispensers or pay online. Water and sewage
systems would be affected too, meaning that health epidemics in
urbanized areas would quickly take a grip, with diseases we thought we had left behind centuries ago soon returning," Dale writes.
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Natural News
(NaturalNews) The news you are about to read should be front page news
everywhere. There is arguably nothing more important to humanity's
survival than the alarming facts presented in this report from NASA, yet
most of the world pretends this event never happened in 2012, and they
falsely assume it won't happen again.
They are wrong. According
to shocking new research published by NASA, each decade there is roughly
a 12% chance of a near-wipeout of humanity's high-tech civilization. In
fact, one such event nearly wiped out technology across the planet
during the summer of 2012.
"A powerful coronal mass ejection
(CME) tore through Earth orbit on July 23, 2012," reports NASA.gov. (1)
"If the eruption had occurred only one week earlier, Earth would have
been in the line of fire."
NASA goes on to report:
Analysts
believe that a direct hit by an extreme CME such as the one that missed
Earth in July 2012 could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling
everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn't even be
able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on
electric pumps.
