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Extreme space weather events -- those that could significantly degrade critical infrastructure -- could disable large portions of the electrical power grid, resulting in cascading failures that would affect key services such as water supply, healthcare, and transportation.
originally posted by: Krystian
Extreme space weather events -- those that could significantly degrade critical infrastructure -- could disable large portions of the electrical power grid, resulting in cascading failures that would affect key services such as water supply, healthcare, and transportation.
BREAKING: EMP Incoming? Whitehouse executive order dated 10/13
Well, this can't be good....
originally posted by: carewemust
Probably putting us on notice that global warming is accelerated and will strike at any moment.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
From my brief look at the link this is not a breaking news event but rather a move to regulate and coordinate preparation for such an event in the future.
originally posted by: WeRpeons
a reply to: Krystian
Our electrical power grid is vulnerable to terrorist attacks and extreme weather. You would think the U.S. would devote money to upgrade our electrical grids around our country instead of spending billions of dollars in over seas conflicts, occupations, foreign aid and military bases. I would think protecting our electrical grid at home has much more interest to the United States than their "so-called" middle east interests.
On September 1–2, 1859, one of the largest recorded geomagnetic storms (as recorded by ground-based magnetometers) occurred. Auroras were seen around the world, those in the northern hemisphere as far south as the Caribbean; those over the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. were so bright that their glow awoke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. People in the northeastern United States could read a newspaper by the aurora's light. The aurora was visible as far from the poles as Sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Mauritania, perhaps Monrovia, Liberia), Monterrey and Tampico in Mexico, Queensland, Cuba, Hawaii, and even at lower latitudes very close to the equator, such as in Colombia