Two powerful X-Class Solar Flares (X is the strongest) disrupted radio signals and cell service in America's west and in large swaths of the Pacific. A radio blackout was experienced in Australia, Indonesia, India and East Africa.
Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the Sun's surface. If strong enough they can fry satellites orbiting the Earth. The strongest solar storm, that we know of, the Carrington Event, occurred in September (1,2) of 1859. It not only disrupted telegraph service in the States, it fried parts of America's telegraph system and killed one operator. It also led to northern and southern lights (Aurora borealis) in countries close to the equator such as Cuba.
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More Vulnerable, Lucky So Far
Over the last 150 years our usage of electrical devices has exploded. We have electrified and digitized much of the world and continue to switch to electricity. Groups like Bill McKibben's 350.org advocate that we go 100% renewables and electrify everything. In other words, betting it all on electricity.
Is that the smart?
On July 23, 2012 there was a Carrington like event, fortunately it happened on the side of the sun facing away from the Earth. Like the Carrington Event it began with a solar flare followed by a huge coronal mass ejection. NASA said had it occurred on the side of the sun facing the Earth there would have been “widespread power blackouts, and everything that plugs into a wall socket would have been disabled.”
NASA, the group that put a man on the moon in 1969, is telling us we dodged a bullet and remain incredibly vulnerable to solar storms.
It gets worse.
The geomagnetic field that shrouds the Earth gives us some protection from solar storms. Unfortunately, it has weakened about 9% since the middle of the 19th century, in the process making us more vulnerable to solar storms.
I also believe that our effort to electrify everything is contributing to a weakening of the geomagnetic field. More on this in the future.
Trouble Ahead.
The sun has a solar cycle that lasts about eleven years, where solar activity increases for about 5 1/2 years, reaching a crescendo, what is called a solar maximum". From there solar activity decreases for 5 1/2 years until it reaches a nadir, what is called a "solar minimum.
In the current solar cycle the solar maximum is expected to peak in the first half of 2025. So we should expect to see solar activity increase for the next 1 year plus.
There are also larger cycles within solar cycles. It is forecast that solar activity will dampen, be in a minimum, for the next few decades. Meaning that there are forces that will exert downward pressure on solar activity for the next few decades.
Call Federal and State Officials
Please call your state and federal representatives and tell them to slowdown this mad rush to electrify everything. For example, New York State has outlawed the addition of new gas furnaces after 2025.
What happens if the east coast of America experiences a solar storm that fries much of Americas electrical grid during the winter (North) or summer (South)?
A lot of people are going to die.
Secondly, this mad rush to electrify is bad for human health and the environment. As an electrosensitive my life dramatically change in 2022 when the city of Syracuse went to 5G cell service. At times I can feel the damaging effects of electricity.
More importantly, I can see and dowse out the damage electricity is doing to Mother Earth.
To learn more about the devastating influence of electricity has on our health and the environment read Arthur Firstenbergs the Invisible Rainbow.
