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Solar Storms, EMPs, Nukes, and Cyberattacks

Via The Survival Blog

Part 1: Solar Storms

The Carrington Event

In September 1859, Richard Carrington, an amateur astronomer in the London, England area, pointed his telescope towards the sun, using dark filters to protect his eyes. Suddenly, he observed a flash of intense white light from the area of the sunspots. His observation is the earliest record of what we now know is a solar flare.

The next day, the charged plasma from that solar storm reached Earth. It lit up the entire northern hemisphere, all the way to Hawaii and Rome, with vivid red, blue, green auroras. There were also reports of magnetic disturbances: Compasses went haywire during the bombardment.

More seriously, the solar eruption battered the world’s fledgling communication network. Telegraph wires burst into flames, touching off fires. Telegraph machines scorched paper printouts, stunned operators with electric shocks, and continued working for hours even after being unplugged from the batteries that powered them.

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An Earthbound ‘Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection’ Event Could Be Imminent

Via ZeroHedge

A minor earthward-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) already hit Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) expects a more powerful earthbound CME to strike Thursday-Friday.

SWPC has already issued geomagnetic storm watches for a minor geomagnetic storm today, a strong geomagnetic storm on Thursday, and a moderate one on Friday.

The impacts will be insignificant now, but that could change tomorrow as a strong geomagnetic storm can spark power grid fluctuations, create satellite irregularities, and degrade radio and GPS signals. SWPC’s storm severity scale is 1-5.

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The 8.6-Year Cycle in the Sun & Solar

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

Solar storms are important events yet they come in different sizes and different types. They are caused by disturbances on the Sun, and are most often coronal clouds associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that are produced by solar flares emanating from active sunspot regions. They can also erupt from rarer coronal holes. Solar filaments (solar prominences) may in fact also trigger CMEs. What is interesting is that putting the data into our computer produced an 8.6-year cycle that operated in intensity peaking every 224 years. Here is the list of the major solar storms:

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LET’S BAN SOLAR STORMS

Liberal control freaks think they can change the course of nature and our atmosphere through laws, regulations and taxes. It’s beyond laughable, as they can’t predict next week’s weather with their supercomputers and the sun can make all their computer model predictions worthless in an instant. Their true goal is to control us. Maybe they should tax the sun or pass new regulations banning solar storms.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has captured rare footage of a coronal mass ejection (CME), or eruption of solar material, surging off the sun. CMEs belch huge clouds of superheated particles from the sun’s corona – the wispy, outermost and hottest layer – and can reach speeds exceeding 1 million miles per hour. Read More: http://on.rt.com/uk7xxy