Meltdown! A solar superstorm could send us back into the dark ages - one is due in just THREE years

dailymail.co.uk ^ | April 19, 2009 | Michael Hanlon

[Free ThinkerNY]

The catastrophe, when it comes, will be beautiful at first. It is a balmy evening in late September 2012. Ever since the sun set, the dimming skies over London have been alive with fire.

Pillars of incandescent green writhe like gigantic serpents across the skies.

Sheets of orange race across the horizon during the most spectacular display of the aurora borealis seen in southern England for 153 years.

And then, 90 seconds later, the lights start to go out. Not the lights in the sky - they will dazzle until dawn - but the lights on the ground.

Within an hour, large parts of Britain are without power.

By midnight, every mobile network is down and the internet is dying. Television - terrestrial and satellite - blinks off the air.

Radio is reduced to a burst of static.

By noon the following day, it is clear something terrible has happened and the civilised world has plunged into chaos.

A year later, Britain, most of Europe plus North America is in the grip of the deepest economic catastrophe in history.

By the end of 2013, 100,000 Europeans have died of starvation.

The dead go unburied, the sick untreated.

It will take two decades or more for the first green shoots of recovery to appear - recovery from the first solar superstorm in modern history.

This catastrophe is not some academic one-in-a-million chance scenario.

It is a very real threat which, according to a report in the latest issue of New Scientist, remains one of the most potent, yet least recognised, threats to the future of human civilisation.

[ApplegateRanch]

50 pounds rice, 1 case Spam, 1 case tomato sauce: who needs recipes?

[Redcitizen]

Whoa wait a minute!
Iron sights: check.

NOW let ‘er rip.

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, it would be inconvenient but not a catastrophe. Our grandparents who survived severe winters in sod huts in Minnesota would hardly blink given the advantages of dry, well-insulated TB-free homes they would have today. Drinking water would not disappear, for anyone with a pond or swimming pool or well with an "Armstrong" pump. Crops would not stop growing; When the winter comes, coal (and wood for us primitives) will still burn just fine. Back to basics with the advantages of modern medicine and dentistry. It might end up being a blessing in disguise.

[Redcitizen]

That’s definitely the end of the world.

[Redcitizen]

Your tagline...LMAO! thanks.

[GOPJ]

Is this being put out by the global warming nuts? Or is it real?

[FourPeas]

In other news, the end of the world may come due to excessive termite farts.....

[GOPJ]

On a lighter note this would guarantee one term for Obama.

There's always a silver lining.

[wafflehouse]

this isnt the least bit alarmist or over reaction