The 'Perfect Storm' - 90 seconds from catastrophe

Now I want to warn everyone, ...... the article from which the following was extracted ....... is Rated SAH (Scary as Hell).

So don't ya be reading it if such things keep you from sleeping at night.

The "perfect storm" - 90 seconds from catastrophe

The report outlines the worst case scenario for the US. The "perfect storm" is most likely on a spring or autumn night in a year of heightened solar activity - something like 2012. Around the equinoxes, the orientation of the Earth's field to the sun makes us particularly vulnerable to a plasma strike.

If ACE has failed by then, or a plasma ball flies at us too fast for any warning from ACE to reach us, the consequences could be staggering. "A really large storm could be a planetary disaster," Kappenman says.

We should learn the lessons of hurricane Katrina, though, and realise that "unlikely" doesn't mean "won't happen". Especially when the stakes are so high. The fact is, it could come in the next three or four years - and with devastating effects. "The Carrington event happened during a mediocre, ho-hum solar cycle," Kintner says. "It came out of nowhere, so we just don't know when something like that is going to happen again."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?page=1

And this is not Science Fiction either. The reality of it occuring is much, much greater than any hyped threat of Global Warming.


So, if it ever happens, I wish everyone .....

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