Issues: Solar flares
Online resources to help you understand the dangers posed to modern technological civilisation by extreme solar flares knocking out our technological underpinnings, and what we can do to mitigate against this risk.
- Our star sometimes launches a plasma bomb in an arbitrary direction, and capacitors are our best chance if Earth is the target the next time. [web page]
- Tech-killing solar storms are a dice-roll towards a new Dark Age for humanity. [video]
- The Earth is not ready at all to face the calamitous repercussions of a serious solar flare [web page]
- Solar storms can cause blackouts, satellite failures and far worse. [web page]
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- Tech-society ending solar flares aren't just limited to the Carrington Event. [web page]
- The oldest trees in the world provide evidence of the biggest solar storm in history. [web page]
- Earth-facing sunspot could mean trouble if a flare results and hits us. [web page]
- A solar storm has the potential to destroy civilisation... and what we can do to avoid disaster. [video]
- The Earth was hit by an ancient solar storm at the incorrect time in the sun's cycle, alarming scientists. The 9,200-year-old storm left experts with a sobering conclusion: we are not prepared for the next one. [web page]
- Realisation of the harm that solar flares could cause to modern civilisation starting to sink in. [web page]
- How human society nearly died on July 2012 - but didn't. [web page]
- Solar storms that are massive and unexpected pose a severe danger to our power grids and data networks. [video]
- Another solar storm will batter the Earth's atmosphere in October 2021. [web page]
- Scientists have issued a warning about a solar storm as major blackouts threaten life on Earth. [web page]
- A large solar storm may wipe down the internet, and scientists have just found a new kind of solar storm that occurs without warning. [web page]
- Why the Sun is a dangerous mistress for humanity. [video]
- Latest solar storm does real damage to Russia. [web page]
- A solar flare 'may sideswipe Earth,' causing a geomagnetic storm to affect the electricity infrastructure. [web page]
- Fears for internet destruction in the event of a serious solar storm. [web page]
- Up to 40 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites were deorbited as a result of a solar storm. [web page]
- A look at how a solar flare might crash our technological civilisation. [web page]
- Solar flares could reset modern civilisation back to the Dark Ages. [video]
- Northern US is seeing breathtaking auroras thanks to a solar storm, but NOAA says another will strike Earth later this week and might damage satellites. [web page]
- Supersized solar flares that would make the Carrington Event look like a breaking lightbulb do sweep the Earth, finds new study. [video]
- A gamma ray strike on Earth would be worse than almost any solar radiation bursts we might face. [video]
- July 2021 saw a massive solar flare from our Sun - here's what we learned from the event. [video]
- Solar storms... a powerful cosmic event might wreak havoc on China's electricity infrastructure. [web page]
- Could a massive flare from our sun incinerate the Earth? [video]
- Dangerous solar flares are more common than previously believed. [web page]
- How to mitigate against a solar flare destroying the Internet. [web page]
- Recent solar flare highlights danger to UK electrical infrastructure and much needed upgrades. [web page]
- Do the massive solar flares at the end of the ice age and the damage they did to the Earth hold any lessons for our current civilisation? [video]
- A re-run of the 1859 solar storm would send humanity back to the Stone Age. [web page]
