Two years ago, Earth experienced a close shave just as perilous, but most newspapers didn’t mention it. The “impactor” was an extreme solar storm, the most powerful in as much as 150+ years…
To think that today we could be sitting in the dark, all wondering how that Chick-Fil-A thing turned out.
I’m bitter. People keep promising me an apocalypse but it never happens, does it?
http://therightscoop.com/canadian-foreign-minister-unabashedly-stands-with-israel-on-the-mark-levin-show/
Except that we wouldn’t be sitting in the dark.
Quite possibly, we’d all be glowing in the dark. Something about nuclear reactors unable to cool themselves in the absence of a live power grid.
http://www.matstein.com/blog/400-chernobyls-solar-flares-emp-and-nuclear-armageddon/
(via WUWT)
This little blue rock of ours has been long overdo for a mass extinction event,and ain’t gonna be cAGW that does it. All I can think of is to take my guns,and head for the nearest leftard/prog enclave to make sure the wipe-out is on going.
It ain’t the solar flare, per se ,that is the problem. If anyplace takes a direct hit from a CME of this size,we are soooooo fubared. The result will make ancient Egypt look positively millions of years advanced.
GAIA ….. pissed off with non-greenie earthlings sent a warning shot …. fall into line or next time earth gets the full high voltage shot.. large enough to shrink ALLAHS twins!
I’m all set, got the SHTF goods, got the plan and self reliance skills – bring on the solar flares, economic armageddon and the zombie apocalypse – for some a meat grinder event, for others – fun. Bring it, I love a challenge.
It’s the astroid that no one will walk away from, but we’re too busy arguing over who says what about what we do with our peepees and fending off a malignant political class obsessed with cow flatulence, to see an astroid coming, let alone working together to put it off course.
Occam…..well said.And I’ve got your back.
No internet? The horror, the horror!
That reminds me, I have to order a zombie-hacking machete online while I still can.
You never hear of this because there is no money in this chicken little scenario to be had.
This MAY belong in the same category as Climate Change. There was the Carrington Event of 1859 and a March 1989 event affecting Quebec (poetic justice) that also caused damage. However, the two spacecraft that could have given us real data, Stereo A and Stereo B were both out of the direct line of the CME, as was Earth, so this prediction of a catastrophe is yet again the result of computer models, not data. I said “MAY” because these computer models might possibly be better than the Climate Change ones.
antelope- which designs are you speaking of? All western plants are self-reliant for electricity needs should the primary loop fail. Fukushima failed because of a tsunami inundating the entire plant, including backup power systems, which is not a threat , obviously to most nuke plants.
Even Three Mile Island, where the operator failed to shut down the primary loop when auxiliary pumps were down for maintenance ( a gross violation of NRC operating rules ), resulted in only a very small exposure of residents nearby to radiation- in the neighborhood of a chest x rays worth- because of the layered safety features built into the design.
The only thing that should worry the public, is if liberals start designing nuclear power plants.
I work for a power company.
We were aware of the flare.
We thought it might affect our communications systems.
Our microwave radio is backed up by fibre.
There was no effect on us.
It was more of a curiosity to see if anything would happen.
And nothing did.
I am curious how they know it was the strongest in 150 years ? What means did they have to measure such things back in Lincolns day , before electricity or anything else that would be affected ? Inquiring minds want to know. Inquiring mind would also like to know why my original post was seized by the comment police and never released ? There was nothing in it that should have sent up a red flag.