THE MAX ALLEN REPORT
Volume #07071020 July 7, 2023
BEWARE THE SOLAR FLARE
As solar activity increases, the danger from
solar flares increases.
Fr. Francis Ignatius, OSF,
Ph.D. is an astronomer and astrophysicist working at the Vatican Observatory
created by the Holy See aimed at furthering scientific understanding of our
universe. This observatory is one of the
oldest active astronomical observatories in the world in operation since 1582
and the Gregorian reform of the calendar.
Fr. Ignatius shares a growing
concern over the sun's increasingly erratic behaviour. Coinciding with a global warming concern, new
solar flares are believed responsible, at least in part, for Earth's and Mars' mutual
global warming.
The purpose of this article
is not to discuss global warming [that's a
discussion for another time] but rather the increased dangers of
a sun gone rogue. We face continuous
multiple flares and the increasing probability of Corona Mass Ejections [CME].
Click for more: Solar
flare sparks blackouts after huge eruption from sunspot 10x wider than Earth
(msn.com)
Fr. Ignatius says, "Sunspot AR3354 ejected a solar flare on June 29th, just a few
days ago. It immediately expanded to
cover an area of over 1.3 billion square miles.
On July 2nd, only 3 days ago, AR3354 ejected an X-Class flare, the
strongest of its kind and aimed directly at the Earth."
He goes on to say, "Flare related radiation greatly disrupted the magnetic field
of Earth and caused radio signals and telemetry to 'splatter' across the globe making communication difficult to
impossible for over a half hour. Of course,
the areas and durations of disruption varied from location to location."
According to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA], officials were afraid the
larger flare might have expanded to a Coronal Mass Ejection which would have caused
catastrophic results on Earth.
Says Dr. Emil Llamas, Ph.D.
"We watched Sunspot AR3354 grow with increasing
speed as it at one point was over 10 times larger than the earth itself. We got off easy this time, but the sun
continues to increase its sunspot cycles and the sunspots are larger, faster
growing, and more numerous than we have ever seen. If this flare had emitted even a modest CME
we would have seen destruction of satellites and terrestrial radio transmitters
and radio telescopes."
Dr. Llamas continues, "With a strong CME Earth's magnetic field would experience
long-term disruption of the poles and the entire magnetic field. It brings to mind the 'The Carrington
Event' which is the most powerful and intense
geomagnetic storm on record. It peaked
from September 1st to 2nd in 1859 during solar cycle 10.
This event caused powerful auroral displays over every square foot of
the earth's surface. It knocked out
telegraph stations around the world."
As both Fr.
Ignatius, Dr. Llamas, and hundreds of scientists fear, a repeat of the
Carrington Event today would be catastrophic.
When it happened back in 1859, technology was still primitive and the
widespread use of electricity, radio and television, the internet, and
satellite did not exist.
A CME such as
that of the Carrington Event, should it take place today, would knock out
communications worldwide and plunge the world's major cities into
darkness. From agriculture to air travel
to the military and all the way to simply communicating with one another beyond
word of mouth or pencil and paper would not be possible.
My word is
simple, "As solar cycles
raise the temperature of the earth, we have a more pressing problem. Man has nothing to do with the solar cycles
which are causing global warming; therefore it is easy to say that man does not
contribute to global warming. That
aside, here is what we must do."
We need to
prepare for the eventual solar flare or Coronal Mass Ejection, one rivalling
the Carrington Event. Even if it's not quite as strong, it can still
end civilisation as we know it. Preparing
methods of communication and agriculture not dependent on technology is of
paramount importance. Protecting our
power grid by subdividing it into 100 mini-grids will serve to protect us all
in the event of yet another Carrington Event or a distant 'Carrington Cousin'.
I'm Max, and
that's the way I see it!
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