I believe that soon we have to start taking some of these SOLAR Cycle warnings seriously!
Nasa warns : Solar flares from huge space storm will cause world wide devastation!
National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2012. In a new warning, NASA said the super storm would hit like “a bolt of lightning” and could cause catastrophic consequences for the world’s health, emergency services and national security unless precautions are taken.
Scientists believe it could damage everything from emergency service’s systems, hospital equipment, banking systems and air traffic control devices, through to everyday items such as home computers, iPods and Sat Navs. Due to humans heavy reliance on electronic devices, which are sensitive to magnetic energy, the storm could leave a multi billion pound damage bill and “potentially devastating” problems for many of the world`s governments.
“We know it is coming but we don’t know how bad it is going to be,” said Dr Richard Fisher, the director of Nasa’s Heliophysics division.
“It will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic. It will cause major problems for the whole world. “Large areas will be without electricity power and to repair that damage will be hard as that takes time.”
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he added: “Systems will just not work. The flares change the magnetic field on the earth that is rapid and like a lightning bolt. That is the solar affect.” A “space weather” conference in Washington DC last week, attended by NASA scientists, policy makers, researchers and government officials, was told of similar warnings. While scientists have previously told of the dangers of the storm, Dr Fisher’s comments are the most comprehensive warnings from NASA up to date.
Dr Fisher, 69, said the storm, which will cause the Sun to reach temperatures of more than 10,000 F (5500C), occurred only a few times over a person’s life. Every 22 years the Sun’s magnetic energy cycle peaks while the number of sun spots or flares hits a maximum level every 11 years. Dr Fisher, a Nasa scientist for 20 years, said these two events would combine in 2012 to produce huge levels of radiation. He said large swathes of the world could face being without power for several months. Another scenario was that large areas, including northern Europe and Britain which have “fragile” power grids, would be without power and access to electronic devices for days. He said preparations were similar to those in a hurricane season, where authorities knew a problem was imminent but did not know how serious it would be.
“I think the issue is now that modern society is so dependent on electronics, mobile phones and satellites, much more so than the last time this occurred,” he said.
The National Academy of Sciences warned two years ago that power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications could “all be knocked out by intense solar activity of this kind”.
Dr Fisher said precautions could be taken including creating back up systems for hospitals and power grids and allow development on satellite “safe modes”.
“If you know that a hazard is coming and you have time enough to prepare and take precautions, then you can avoid trouble,” he added. His division, a department of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington DC, which investigates the Sun’s influence on the earth, uses dozens of satellites to study the current threat.
The government has said it was aware of the threat and “contingency plans were in place” to cope with the fall out from such a storm. These included allowing for certain transformers at the edge of the National Grid to be temporarily switched off and to improve voltage levels throughout the network.
NASA also confirms 2012 prediction – The deterioration of Earth’s Magnetosphere during Sun’s Polar shift.
Scientists have now accepted that the intersection of 2 problems first the deterioration of Earth’s Magnetosphere during the Sun’s Polar shift in 2012 as recently discussed will be the real concern as we approach 2012 : and here’s the reason why:
Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms. Now in 2012 the suns poles will reverse , during this time a massive solar storm will wreck havoc on earth usually this causes no problem but now due to the ‘cracks’ in it.
Earth’s protective Magnetosphere may fail us, so the violent solar and electromagnetic radiation will make it through and cause many problems to life as we know it today (ex: disabling communication satellites, mobile phones, effective sleep patterns, & radiation poisoning of humans) Also as earth has to absorb extra radiation & energy this will cause possible changes within the earth’s core with energy being re dissipated from the earth with new volcanoes formed and crust movement.
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A once in a century solar storm would threaten catastrophic destruction if a worst case scenario event transpired, a new NASA report has found.
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