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Posted on 05/17/2011 6:56:07 AM PDT by jda
GENEVA (AP) -- A senior official at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says solar storms pose a growing threat to criticial infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment.
NOAA Assistant Secretary Kathryn Sullivan says the intensity of solar storms is expected to peak in 2013 and countries should prepare for "potentially devastating effects."
Solar storms release particles that can temporarily disable or permanently destroy fragile computer circuits.
Sullivan, a former NASA astronaut who in 1984 became the first woman to walk in space, told a U.N. weather conference in Geneva on Tuesday that "it is not a question of if, but really a matter of when a major solar event could hit our planet."
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Something has to be done before it's too late! Woe is me!! We're doomed!!!
Maybe we could send AlGore there to check out the situation.
Big one on Saturday, perhaps?
” Well, it looks like the effects of global warming (or climate change, or whatever the PC word-du-jour is) are now reaching the sun. “
It’s “SOLAR WARMING”, and it’s caused by all of those solar panels reflecting light and heat back to the sun and making all of the Solar Bears shed their fur....
(Hey - it makes as much sense as the GW spew... ;))
Oh, MY! Can’t we buy solar credits to make this problem go away?
First in with “Bush’s fault”!!!
That damned Bush again!
Just tax the sun!
The snark on this thread is not justified.
This is not an article about global warming, but about a natural phenomena.
Solar activity and its effect on earth is well-documented but not well-understood, and apparently something we’ll continue to learn through experience.
“Sullivan, a former NASA astronaut who in 1984 became the first woman to walk in space....”
Actually it was Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984. Sullivan did her extravehicular work in October, 1984.
That’s what ya get posting an AP article.
It’s nothing to laugh at. But I will be laughing when it does hit and everyone cellphones go out.
” The snark on this thread is not justified. “
The ‘snark’, as you call it, is an attempt to address, with humor, (of varying degrees of effectiveness) the larger, and more immediate, tragedy of the insistence by our ‘betters’ on politicizing anything and everything - especially ‘natural phenomena’ which are, by any logical assessment, non-political....
Indeed looks like may have never heard of the Carrington Event of 1859 in which a soloar flare occured that was so strong it shocked telegraph lines melt lines and started fires even after batteries were disconnected. Now consider how much wire could have possibly have been hung in 1859 compared to today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
Quick tax suv’s
To: jda The snark on this thread is not justified.You will eat those words someday.This is not an article about global warming, but about a natural phenomena.
BTW, the new buzz word is "altered climate" it's no longer global warming or climate change.
You're right, of course, and no "snark" is warranted.
An intense solar storm occurred in 1859 and severely upset the telegraph system (in its infancy) in this country. I would imagine that the early telegraph systems were rather rugged and beefy. Imagine what could happen in this era of computers and electronics. I believe that, should an event as severe as that of 1859 were to occur today, communications and electronics of all kinds might be interrupted worldwide. There are some local safeguard that can be taken such as a well grounded screen room or Faraday cage, but it would be impossible to protect everything. Should something like this happen recovery would probably take years, if ever. Imagine a world where your telephones doesn't work, your car won't start and there's no electricity.
this is really important stuff. Look up 1859 Carrington event.
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See Link below...The little words next to the pink gragh read: “Welcome to solar max” The graph is by Leif Svalgaard
http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png
ALSO:
Solar Max – So Soon?
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Guest post by David Archibald
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/08/solar-max-so-soon/
AND ONE MORE:
scroll down on this site to “Sunspot/Flux Chart”..updated DAILY!!!
http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/index.shtml
Alas, there is no way we can stop the Sun. So what are we to do? In a word, wait. If the worse comes, deal with it. And if not revel in our good fortune. These are our only choices.
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