Protect your family! Prepare!-----Coronal Mass Ejections and their Increasing Threat Moving Forward - Electroverse

Coronal Mass Ejections and their Increasing Threat Moving Forward - Electroverse

• “When a CME hits Earth head on,” says Dr. Newmark, “the results could be catastrophic to modern human society.”

"CMEs, or Coronal Mass Ejections, are enormous bursts of superheated gas (called plasma) ejecting from the sun. 

They are powerful eruptions driven by kinks in the solar magnetic field.

...“It could essentially shut down the Industrial Revolution,” says ecology.com’s Weather Ecology Specialist, Frank Billingsley. 

“If so much of our technology and electrical systems along with the plants that supply them are shut down, then we are going to go back to the time of the Industrial Revolution.”

• ...The “Carrington Event” of 1859 hit a ‘full-strength’ magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record. 
• ...In 1989, Quebec was hit by a relatively modest CME which still took out enough of the grid to keep the entire province in the dark for almost twelve hours.

...We did just dodge a Carrington-sized CME in 2012, by total luck it flew just past Earth. 

And while an event similar to the 1859 solar storm would be devastating, scientists are more concerned with the 500-year or 1000-year solar storm that there is limited recorded history of...Read all!