The UK is prepping for damaging Coronal Mass Ejections

[Loomis]

This story came on Fox News this afternoon.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...2-hour-warning-to-deal-with-next-massive-sun/



Here is a hyperlink to another article. It says in "the report", you can click on it to read the report from the UK. I did and it's very interesting.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/dis...s-prepping-for-damaging-coronal-mass-ejection

 

[Silent Earth]

loomis I like the wyvern is it welsh

 

[Loomis]

loomis I like the wyvern is it welsh

Actually a Wyvern has two legs, this one has 4. Closest I could get to a Han Dynasty Dragon.

 

[jimLE]

i deffently agree with this..
The report cites the “1859 Carrington Event,” which was a powerful coronal mass ejection. While there is only a 1 percent probability of the Carrington Event reoccurring in any given year, modern society would be woefully underprepared to handle such a storm, according to the report. The U.K. department warns that it is difficult to forecast these events accurately. The short 12-hour warning time would leave major urban areas ill-prepared, and there is currently a “lack of capability to monitor the effects of severe events once they start.”

To prepare for this kind of storm, countries need to set plans in place to respond quickly, design safeguards in power and communications infrastructure, and send out clear alerts and warnings to the public, the report suggests.

“The main challenge we face is that awareness of the risk is low,” reads the report. “Much more needs to be done to encourage potentially vulnerable sectors to adopt measures to mitigate the likely impacts.”