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Overdue Solar Storm Could Wipeout Mankind
Published on Oct 7, 2012 by DiscloseTruthTV
Engineer and author Mat Stein discussed solar flares, EMPs, and the plausibility of the new TV show Revolution. Based on his research, “extreme geomagnetic storms” appear to hit the Earth every 75 to 90 years and that the planet is overdue for the next blast. “It could be anywhere from the end of the world as we know it,” he said, “to the end of human life and mammalian life on the planet.” On that note, he was deeply worried about the fate of the planet’s nuclear power plants, which are ill equiped for long term power outages. Stein decried the lack of preparation for a solar storm by the American government and power industry, which has the means to safeguard against such an event, but refuses to spend the money on the necessary technology.
Biography:
Matthew Stein holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He is an engineer, author and building contractor. He has also worked as a schoolteacher, carpenter, and rock climbing and ski instructor. As the owner of Aloha Aina Builders, Stein built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. As a mechanical engineer and president of Stein Design, he has designed consumer water filtration devices, commercial water filtration systems, photovoltaic roofing panels, medical bacteriological filters, drinking fountains, emergency chemical drench systems,
computer disk drives, portable fiberglass buildings and automated assembly machinery for Open Energy, Hewlett Packard, Seagate, Plantronics, Duraflame, Haws, and IGT, among other companies.
Wikipedia
A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in the interplanetary medium. A geomagnetic storm is a major component of space weather and provides the input for many other components of space weather. A geomagnetic storm is caused by a solar wind shock wave and/or cloud of magnetic field which interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field. The increase in the solar wind pressure initially compresses the magnetosphere and the solar wind’s magnetic field will interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and transfer an increased amount of energy into the magnetosphere. Both interactions cause an increase in movement of plasma through the magnetosphere (driven by increased electric fields inside the magnetosphere) and an increase in electric current in the magnetosphere and ionosphere. During the main phase of a geomagnetic storm, electric current in the magnetosphere create magnetic force which pushes out the boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. The disturbance in the interplanetary
medium which drives the geomagnetic storm may be due to a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or a high speed stream (co-rotating interaction region or CIR)[1] of the solar wind originating from a region of weak magnetic field on the Sun’s surface. The frequency of geomagnetic storms increases and decreases with the sunspot cycle. CME driven storms are more common during the maximum of the solar cycle and CIR driven storms are more common during the minimum of the solar cycle.
There are several space weather phenomena which tend to be associated with a geomagnetic storm or are caused by a geomagnetic storm. These include: Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events, geomagnetically induced currents (GIC), ionospheric disturbances which cause radio and radar scintillation, disruption of navigation by magnetic compass and auroral displays at much lower latitudes than normal. In 1989, a geomagnetic storm energized ground induced currents which disrupted electric power distribution throughout most of the province of Quebec and caused aurorae as far south as Texas.
OK. If this happens every 75-90 years, what happened 75-90 years ago? Everyone is still here–well most of the descendents are. Where is any proof that we are doomed?
Mankind is not doomed. Myopic articles such as this one don’t take into account God’s love for his creation.
Naw, the prepared will survive. The hard working people of this country will survive. The parasite class will be dead in months though. Without their EBT cards they will freeze, starve and kill each other over scraps of food and any that are left, we productive citizens will take care of.
Bring it!
Hey genius… ever heard of the Carrington Event?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
Had that happened today, there would not be a single transistor or microchip in the northern hemisphere that wasn’t fried. 150 years ago, the highest tech we had was telegraph lines and they started fires all across the plains states from arcing and even electrocuted some telegraph operators.
I don’t know about the 70-90 year estimate, seems to me it is more like a 100 year flood type thing that typically happens every hundred years but could happen three years in a row.
Bottom line, it happened before and it will happen again. Are you prepared? Many of us are, this solar cycle does look ugly.