Comments on: Could The Sun Set Off The Next Big Natural Disaster?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:45:28 +0000

Solar weather has played a signifcant role in weather patterns all over the world. CME and another plasma emitted from the sun effect both the Mesoscale, Macroscale, and Microscale levels of the atmosphere. Like a rock thrown into a pond, the effects trickle down going from a small area to a larger area. Like the pond, our atmosphere is a fluid-like state always moving, and the CME is the rock being thrown in to the atmosphere.

By: RobRoy

RobRoy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:47:26 +0000

@Damian – Solar Flares on the Sun have nothing to do with any sort of pollution on Earth and no sort of life style change can stop that from happening. Not that I don’t agree with you, it’s just very unfitting here.

By: Damian

Damian — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:26:22 +0000

I think this problem is result of eco disturbances caused by man. Floods, tornadoes are catching lot of limelight and attention. We have been cruel to nature and now nature is showing its true colors.Anyways, the only solution to this problem is to go green. Go green is an acronym that can only save earth.

By: Gary Null

Gary Null — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:38:34 +0000

This is a real and serious problem, one on which I recently published a paper, exploring the ways in which we are woefully unprepared. It is entitled “Solar Flares: Katrina Times 1000?” and you may find it at the following short link:
http://j.mp/nrldtv

Please read it and pass it along. If we fail to take this threat seriously, we can’t adequately prepare for it.

By: Sarah Zielinski

Sarah Zielinski — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:22:10 +0000

From http://www.solarstorms.org/SPacemakers.html :

“Pacemakers can register the effects of severe solar storms, though there is no danger to the patient from the ‘glitches’ that occur.

Modern pacemakers are actually small computers that run sophisticated programs. That means they are subject to radiation-induced, SEUs just like satellite electronics.

Energetic particles reaching the ground can cause pacemaker glitches that are, fortunately, undetectable to the user.”

By: larry hjerpe

larry hjerpe — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:20:04 +0000

Questions.in some areas could the solar flares effect people with pace makers and people who have metal dental implants or fillings.how might some be affected and are there any health risks

By: Daniel Hazelton Waters

Daniel Hazelton Waters — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:28:53 +0000

There are about 700 nuclear power plants that could suffer problems during a massive coronal mass ejection also don’t forget.

By: fresno4

fresno4 — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:56:00 +0000

I really liked the fictional book called Preppers Road March that detailed how one man survived after a solar storm took out the grid.

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By: RTeal

RTeal — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:40:55 +0000

It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.

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