Just in case Obummah is short a few crisis options for his pre-election 2012 "October Surprise" -- jihad attacks, Iranian nukes, US/Mexico border classes, stock market crashes -- here's another one he can add to his wish list. Posted at RightPundits.
SOLAR STORMS IN 2012 -- EARTH'S KATRINA?
By Andrew Zarowny
NASA scientists are warning about potential solar storms in 2012. Disaster expert Lawrence E. Joseph warns this could this be Earth’s Katrina. In 2006, our Sun reached it’s solar minimum, a point during the eleven-year cycle where there are few solar storms. 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. 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.
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 could be the equivalent of a Hurricane Katrina, knocking large portions of America’s electrical grid offline 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.
4 comments:
There's an Ed Dames "remote viewing" video at the bottom of that post which, if it's what I think it is, is straight out of "The Men Who Stare At Goats". However, the story itself has been carried elsewhere and apparently the information is valid.
Hi Revereridesagain.
Nasa and other organisations have been warning for a while for potential devastating effects from solar storms ,nobody seems to care or take it seriously.I for one wouldn't think it's crazy to keep that old car in the garage as a reserve,you know the one before all these electronic gadgets came to use in cars.Altough if the electricity grid go's down for months where will we get gas?lol
Hi Will -- don't you love the graphic? Looks like the sun is going to launch a gigantic blue spider at us.
My car is "old" -- 10 years -- but I gather it will still go pfffffssst if one of these major solar storms hits. Fortunately I am in a relatively small town and can walk just about everywhere.
at full capacity it would take 10 years just to replace the major substation transformers hit by a big solar flare, just in the United States..
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