NASA scientists are warning about potential solar storms in 2012. Some point to 2012 Mayan calendar end of the world, but such a strong solar wind striking planet Earth from space occur once a century. There were major solar storms in 1859 and 1921. Disaster expert Lawrence E. Joseph warns that such strong solar winds could this be Earth’s Katrina. Such solar storms could effect our power grid with the force of 100m bombs. In 2006, our Sun reached it’s solar minimum, a point during the eleven-year cycle where there are few solar storms, but the is also a 24 year cycle for a Solar Max. Just weeks ago, a major solar storm, a solar tsunami, known as a coronal mass ejection, erupted from a sunspot. For several days, there were minor disruptions in communications. Yet, we are still over a year from the next solar maximum, where such storms will be more frequent.
By the summer of 2011, our Sun will be entering it’s next solar maximum, which will continue through much of 2012 through 2013. The next solar minimum will not be until 2017. So the next several years we will be experiencing more solar tsunamis. Could solar storms in 2012 have any dramatic effects such as Hurricane Katrina?
On November 4th, 2003, a massive solar flare erupted. NASA satellite SOHO recorded the solar storm which was classified as an X-45 event, the largest observed solar tsunami ever witnessed. Had the coronal mass ejection happened three months later, Earth would have born a direct hit, causing serious damage to our communications and electrical power grid networks.
Such massive solar flares occur regularly, but until recently, their impact has been negligible. Had previous solar storms, like those recorded in 1859 and 1921 hit Earth today, devices such as high-voltage transformers, necessary for electrical power transmission, could be knocked out. Thousands of such units are highly vulnerable and require addition surge protection before 2012.
Some point to 2012 Mayan calendar end of the world. NASA says such solar storms occur once a century and strike planet Earth from space with the force of 100m bombs. There were major solar storms in 1859 and 1921. Disaster expert Lawrence E. Joseph is warning Congress to spend $250 Million dollars to upgrade our electrical grid before the next wave of solar storms in 2012. He says the impact of such solar winds could be the equivalent of a Hurricane Katrina, with the solar storms knocking out the power grid for several months. Such would disrupt food and water supplies, law enforcement, and even national security. Solar storms were to blame for blackouts in Quebec in 1989, as well as in Sweden and South Africa in 2003.
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August 17th, 2010 at 4:44 am
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August 17th, 2010 at 5:06 am
250 Million/6months to complete before the union contract 14 Billion/11 years after…
Should be right up his majesty’s alley.
August 17th, 2010 at 5:26 am
You’d think they’d be jumping all over this. But, they’re mired in all the other nonsense they’ve created for themselves. This should have been part of the original stimulus package from last year!
Bunch of dufusses!
August 17th, 2010 at 10:53 am
There was a mistake in the prediction that compares the 2013 major solar storm to the 1859 solar storm. That was a extremely powerful storm that when examining the nitrates in ice cores shows that storms that powerful only happen every 500 years. It wont be big people jumped to conclusions too fast.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:41 am
C’mon Andy – have you seen any stimulus spending that went towards building / accomplishing anything useful…
If nobody’s brother in law had a chance to start a shell company in time to get the no-bid contract for it – it didn’t get done.
August 21st, 2010 at 9:23 am
There you go with the Sun again. There isn’t going to be any ice left on top of the world in 10 years, and all you can do is harp on the Sun. Yeah, them solar storms are a real big threat. Something we really got to worry about. Global warming? All a hoax! If not, then caused by the Sun!
August 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
Hey Robbie! All those Republicans sentors who went home to their home states and bragged and tried to take credit for projects funded by the stimulus bill sure seemed to think it did something useful!
August 21st, 2010 at 11:00 am
Klo, we will gladly fund an expedition for you to monitor the situation on an ice flow in the high Arctic.
August 21st, 2010 at 11:03 am
Oh, and BTW, Klo,
Those Republican senators were hypnotized by Obama, who uses NLP techniques to mesmerize his victims.
August 21st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Nothing has changed, yet everything is changing! We concentrate on what’s happening on Earth with global warming and the potential of nuclear holocaust, but the reality is is that we live in a cosmic universe. Man has been conditioned to believe that everything in life is within his control, that divine intervention will somehow preserve the cause; but the reality is is that there are things in a cosmic universe that may be beyond man’s control. One would hope and expect that there are higher beings out there who will save man from the inevitable, that being that Earth’s life, as well as it’s Sun, is finite. I have to believe in the reality of existence because I feel that I am! I suppose that with a cataclysmic disaster, no one would suffer. I suppose that all things are possible, but that very little is predictable. We’re all destined to become victims of our destiny, but as we are not super humans, our destiny controls us!
August 21st, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Jim…you wont by any chance be heading the congressional hearings on the salmonella outbreak pertaining to whether it was the chicken or the eggs fault ?
August 21st, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Jim made a good comment, thoughtful. micky All you did was poor sarcastic bile on it, when you could have just left it alone. Territory mania in the exreme because its sure not regular bloggery.
August 21st, 2010 at 7:29 pm
He went in circles Brian, said a bunch of sht any idiot could come up with.
Example;
“Man has been conditioned to believe that everything in life is within his control, that divine intervention will somehow preserve the cause; but the reality is is that there are things in a cosmic universe that may be beyond man’s control. ”
Gee really ? You mean were not in control of the universe ?
Maybe its the divine intervention thats beyond mans control ?
Pffft.. good for you both, hope you’tre all warm and fuzzy now.
Figures you’d be attracted to some who speaks alot and says nothing.
Right up your ally huh ?
August 21st, 2010 at 7:53 pm
did it ever occur to You that the guy was younger and coming onto his own thinking for himself things for the first time? Maybe a little encouragement(if you can afford it) might be due him for at least trying. Not everyone is, or will be, as jaded as you, and its an insult to the rest of us to talk like you are the cosmic one who seen it all, done it all, when in fact your bellowing from alley way. big diff. Jim Morrison must not have believed all that was said about him to end up the way he did in some back bathroom in parris doing ridiculousness. He knew nothing we need knowing.
August 21st, 2010 at 8:44 pm
“did it ever occur to You that the guy was younger and coming onto his own thinking for himself things for the first time?”
Basically you’re saying hes naive ?
‘He knew nothing we need knowing.’
Speak for yourself moron. I’m not the one who needs knowing half as much as a chronic liar.
If he was as naive and in need of knowing as you implied then he should of put the statement in the form of a question instead of a sermon.
Brian, I’m just a guy who doesnt try to impress people with a bunch of garnished crap like you in order to try and elevate myself
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I’m about as flawed as a human comes but at least I’m fcking honest.
August 21st, 2010 at 11:56 pm
wow mickey, you really have extreme issues. mickey you garnish near everythign you say with bombast. yes bombast is garnish. so is hubris. I don’t consider bombast and hubris honest at all, but an obfuscation to manipulate. I don’t mind straight sales pitches if thats how one really feels, but bombastic hubris is spin at a minimum and actually even worse. so no, your about as honest as a tabloid running a story with big bold letters. drama does not enhance reality.
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:54 am
@ Brian, & Jim, too.
Jim IS naive! He’s just realizing now that there are more ways for extinction than global warming and nuclear war? There’s about a zillion ways we could get wiped out, and frankly global warming is about the least of our worries.
As an expert in and fan of survivalism, I’ve been watching that show, ‘The Colony’. WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! Just for starters, a killer virus, while a bit of a drag due to all the bodies being needed to be buried-burned-etc, the survivors would actually live like kings. There would be tons of goodies lying around.
Not the least of which would be plenty of firearms. Why would they have to make weapons? There’s 350 million guns in America! Load up a shopping cart full and nobody will mess with ya!
If you look at history, while things during the ‘Black Death’ were bad as the disease ravaged Europe, once it had worked it’s way through, there was a major economic boom!
Since half the people were gone, the value of labor skyrocketed. The survivors inherited the wealth of the dead. You had the beginnings of the industrial revolution with mechanical looms. Investment capital started to take form. The post-Plague era was one big party and shopping spree!
Humanity stands more of a chance of being wiped out by an asteroid or comet strike than it does from 99% of the usual things people think of that could cause the end of civilization. Nuclear war is still high on the list, but global warming is a joke. If anything, it would be a benefit than a problem.
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:48 am
Brian;
“drama does not enhance reality.”
As a matter of fact it does.
Thats basically the purpose of drama.
the reality is that you’re a self centered self ejaculting narcissitic pontificating individual.
Now, I could reduce that lengthy diatribe and render you to just being and idiot.
But, toss in a little drama such as “F.U.C.K.I.N.G” and you instsantly get impact that drives the point in a much more expeditious and pointed manner.
Simply said, you’re not just and idiot..you’re idiocy is of a calibre that constitutes you being called a “FCKING IDIOT”.
besides, you’re still a liar who cant prove his claims.
If you took your case to court and tried to convict based on your claims and the flimsy crap you have to support them you’d probably get locked up for comtempt. Because in all reality, thats what you are.
A snide contemptuous lying vindictive son of a b*tch who veils himself in literal decorum thinking it will hide what sinister little prick you are.
The most evil people in our history have been known to never utter one bit of profanity or expletives and you seem to think that just because you think that just because you post everything in your fcking retarded “blocks” void of any verbally offensive enhancements you’re going to somehow appear as an elevated conscience.
You’re not fooling anyone a$$hole
You’re a nasty motherfcker who needs be b*tchslapped upside the head and told to stfu before you get an innocent person harmed by your lies