If this didn't come from a man in charge of a 24.8 million fund, would never give it a second thought. Anyone with the cole's notes on this?.
https://www.cnbc.com/id/101875747
https://www.cnbc.com/id/101875747
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I've been researching this issue for a few years and he's right on the money imo.
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Cole's notes ;/Waving://
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Google it, not too hard.
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Wouldn't mind your thoughts on it.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has issued an unusual warning for investors, calling the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the "most significant danger" in the world.
Called an "electromagnetic pulse" or EMP, the events can occur naturally from solar storms or artificially from a high-altitude explosion of nuclear weapons.
"(A natural EMP event) today would cause a massive disruption to the electric grid, possibly shutting it down entirely for months or longer, with unimaginable consequences," Singer wrote. "Only two years ago, the sun let loose with a Carrington-magnitude burst, but the position of the earth at the time prevented the burst from hitting it. The chances of additional events of such magnitude may be far greater than most people think."
Carrington refers to a solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph systems to fail around the world. Singer warned that a man-made EMP attack would be even worse.
"It would not cause any blast or radiation damage, but such an attack would have consequences even more catastrophic than a severe solar storm. It could not only bring down the grid, but also lay down a very intense, very fast pulse across the continent, damaging or destroying electronic switches, devices, computers and transformers across America," the letter said.
"The consequences of such an attack could be catastrophic; all electronics, power systems, and information systems could be shut down," Rep. Scott Perry said in prepared remarks during an EMP hearing in May held by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. "This could then cascade into interdependent infrastructures such as water, gas, and telecommunications. While we understand this is an extreme case, we must always be prepared in case a rogue state decides to utilize this technology."
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The article sums it up very well.
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Called an "electromagnetic pulse" or EMP, the events can occur naturally from solar storms or artificially from a high-altitude explosion of nuclear weapons.
"(A natural EMP event) today would cause a massive disruption to the electric grid, possibly shutting it down entirely for months or longer, with unimaginable consequences," Singer wrote. "Only two years ago, the sun let loose with a Carrington-magnitude burst, but the position of the earth at the time prevented the burst from hitting it. The chances of additional events of such magnitude may be far greater than most people think."
Carrington refers to a solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph systems to fail around the world. Singer warned that a man-made EMP attack would be even worse.
"It would not cause any blast or radiation damage, but such an attack would have consequences even more catastrophic than a severe solar storm. It could not only bring down the grid, but also lay down a very intense, very fast pulse across the continent, damaging or destroying electronic switches, devices, computers and transformers across America," the letter said.
"The consequences of such an attack could be catastrophic; all electronics, power systems, and information systems could be shut down," Rep. Scott Perry said in prepared remarks during an EMP hearing in May held by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. "This could then cascade into interdependent infrastructures such as water, gas, and telecommunications. While we understand this is an extreme case, we must always be prepared in case a rogue state decides to utilize this technology."
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The article sums it up very well.
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Whenever there are warnings of increased solar activity, especially large solar flares, watch for glitches in TV and radio transmissions, weird things happening to cell reception, GPS malfunctioning, etc.
Think about how much of our society is dependent on satellite technology and wired into the grid.
All it would take is one massive electromagnetic pulse to render everything useless and melt the whole system worldwide.
Think about how much of our society is dependent on satellite technology and wired into the grid.
All it would take is one massive electromagnetic pulse to render everything useless and melt the whole system worldwide.
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Vancouver’s Faraday cage cafe closes tomorrow
https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/07/15/vancouvers-faraday-cage-cafe-closes-tomorrow/
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Former CIA Director Woolsey tells Congress of a doomsday scenario in which a nuclear-blast-triggered electromagnetic pulse takes down the US power grid, leading to starvation and death. Some experts decry 'hysteria' over EMPs.
It is an unsettling doomsday scenario: A ballistic missile is launched from a freighter near America’s shores, setting off a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. The blast generates electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that could take out the nation’s electrical grid and bring civilization as we know it “to a cold, dark halt.”
This warning comes from the former director of the CIA, James Woolsey, in little-noticed testimony recently before the House Armed Services Committee.
A nuclear weapon would be detonated in orbit “in order to destroy much of the electric grid from above the US with a single explosion,” he told lawmakers last week. “Two thirds of the US population would likely perish from starvation, disease, and societal breakdown. Other experts estimate the likely loss to be closer to 90 percent.”
This dire forecast included warning of an “increasing likelihood that rogue nations such as North Korea (and before long, most likely, Iran) will soon match Russia and China in that they will have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as SCUDs that could be launched from a freighter near our shores.”
Mr. Woolsey sprinkled in a bit of intelligence as well. “In 2004,” he noted to lawmakers, “the Russians told us that their ‘brain drain’ had been helping the North Koreans develop EMP weapons.”
It is an unsettling doomsday scenario: A ballistic missile is launched from a freighter near America’s shores, setting off a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. The blast generates electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that could take out the nation’s electrical grid and bring civilization as we know it “to a cold, dark halt.”
This warning comes from the former director of the CIA, James Woolsey, in little-noticed testimony recently before the House Armed Services Committee.
A nuclear weapon would be detonated in orbit “in order to destroy much of the electric grid from above the US with a single explosion,” he told lawmakers last week. “Two thirds of the US population would likely perish from starvation, disease, and societal breakdown. Other experts estimate the likely loss to be closer to 90 percent.”
This dire forecast included warning of an “increasing likelihood that rogue nations such as North Korea (and before long, most likely, Iran) will soon match Russia and China in that they will have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as SCUDs that could be launched from a freighter near our shores.”
Mr. Woolsey sprinkled in a bit of intelligence as well. “In 2004,” he noted to lawmakers, “the Russians told us that their ‘brain drain’ had been helping the North Koreans develop EMP weapons.”
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Catastrophic solar superstorm is overdue to hit Earth, scientist says
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/catastrophic-solar-superstorm-overdue-hit-earth-scientist-says-191227219.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/catastrophic-solar-superstorm-overdue-hit-earth-scientist-says-191227219.html
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Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare at Earth
Update for Sept. 11: The Slooh Community Observatory will feature live views of the flare-spouting sunpost AR2158 today at 1 p.m. ET. To watch it, visit: LIVE TODAY @ 1 pm: Slooh Webcast on Solar Flare Hotspot.
A big storm erupted on the sun today (Sept. 10), and Earth was in the crosshairs.
The sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type — at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) today from an Earth-facing sunspot known as Active Region 2158, which also fired off another intense solar flare yesterday. Both space weather events were captured on camera by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
Today's solar flare qualifies as an X1.6 storm but poses no danger to anyone on Earth or the astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA officials told Space.com. However, some people's lives could be affected by the solar tempest.
"Impacts to HF [high-frequency] radio communications on the daylight side of Earth are expected to last for more than an hour," researchers with the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) wrote in an online update today.
Further effects could be felt later in the week if the sunspot also fired off a cloud of superhot plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs often accompany powerful flares and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth, typically two to three days after erupting.
Geomagnetic storms can temporarily disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids, as well as intensify the beautiful auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.
It's probable that Wednesday's eruption did indeed produce a CME, SWPC researchers said.
"Initial information suggests that a CME is likely associated with this event, but further analysis is underway at this time," they wrote in today's update.
Scientists classify strong solar flares according to a three-tiered system, with C flares being the weakest, M flares medium-strength and X flares the most powerful.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sun-unleashes-major-solar-flare-earth-video-215720290.html?vp=1
Update for Sept. 11: The Slooh Community Observatory will feature live views of the flare-spouting sunpost AR2158 today at 1 p.m. ET. To watch it, visit: LIVE TODAY @ 1 pm: Slooh Webcast on Solar Flare Hotspot.
A big storm erupted on the sun today (Sept. 10), and Earth was in the crosshairs.
The sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type — at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) today from an Earth-facing sunspot known as Active Region 2158, which also fired off another intense solar flare yesterday. Both space weather events were captured on camera by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
Today's solar flare qualifies as an X1.6 storm but poses no danger to anyone on Earth or the astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA officials told Space.com. However, some people's lives could be affected by the solar tempest.
"Impacts to HF [high-frequency] radio communications on the daylight side of Earth are expected to last for more than an hour," researchers with the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) wrote in an online update today.
Further effects could be felt later in the week if the sunspot also fired off a cloud of superhot plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs often accompany powerful flares and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth, typically two to three days after erupting.
Geomagnetic storms can temporarily disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids, as well as intensify the beautiful auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.
It's probable that Wednesday's eruption did indeed produce a CME, SWPC researchers said.
"Initial information suggests that a CME is likely associated with this event, but further analysis is underway at this time," they wrote in today's update.
Scientists classify strong solar flares according to a three-tiered system, with C flares being the weakest, M flares medium-strength and X flares the most powerful.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sun-unleashes-major-solar-flare-earth-video-215720290.html?vp=1
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I was a girl scout and learned many valuable life skills while earning badges. :biggrin2:
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Powerful first solar flare of 2015 may indicate more activity to come
On Tuesday, a giant solar flare erupted on our Sun’s surface – the largest of the new year. Sunspot AR2257 erupted on Jan. 13, blasting superheated plasma into space.
A pulse of extreme UV radiation from the flare, travelling at the speed of light reached Earth within 8.5 minutes of the blast and ionized Earth’s upper atmosphere over Australia and the Indian Ocean. Ham radio operators reported a brief communications blackout at lower frequencies that lasted for 10 to 20 minutes.
The flare, which was many times the size of Earth, also flung off a giant cloud of charged particles called a coronal mass ejection, that may be heading towards Earth.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that there is a 40 per cent chance of polar geomagnetic storms occurring today when the CME is expected to give a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/gee...lare-of-2015-may-indicate-more-214420630.html
On Tuesday, a giant solar flare erupted on our Sun’s surface – the largest of the new year. Sunspot AR2257 erupted on Jan. 13, blasting superheated plasma into space.
A pulse of extreme UV radiation from the flare, travelling at the speed of light reached Earth within 8.5 minutes of the blast and ionized Earth’s upper atmosphere over Australia and the Indian Ocean. Ham radio operators reported a brief communications blackout at lower frequencies that lasted for 10 to 20 minutes.
The flare, which was many times the size of Earth, also flung off a giant cloud of charged particles called a coronal mass ejection, that may be heading towards Earth.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that there is a 40 per cent chance of polar geomagnetic storms occurring today when the CME is expected to give a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/gee...lare-of-2015-may-indicate-more-214420630.html
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This might be a benefit for all.
Iran nuclear duel: Sign of a 'more hopeful world' or a 'historic surrender'?
https://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/14/historic-nuclear-deal-reached-with-iran
Iran nuclear duel: Sign of a 'more hopeful world' or a 'historic surrender'?
https://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/14/historic-nuclear-deal-reached-with-iran
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GRAPES-3 indicates a crack in Earth’s magnetic shield that reveal burst in cosmic rays
According to scientists, the world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield. The GRAPES-3 muon telescope recorded the burst when a giant cloud of plasma moving at a speed of 2.5 million kilometres per hour struck Earth last year, causing a severe compression of its magnetosphere and activating a severe geomagnetic storm.
Solar storms can cause major disturbance to human civilisation by affecting satellite operations and communications, large electrical power grids and global positioning systems (GPS).
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty in Tamil Nadu recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 GeV around midnight of 22 June 2015, which lasted for two hours.
The magnetic field bent these particles about 180 degree, where they were detected as a burst by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope last year.
“The simultaneous occurrence of the burst in all nine directions suggests its origin close to Earth,” the authors wrote in the study, published in Physical Review Letters.
The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, struck our planet at a speed of about 2.5 million kilometres per hour, causing a severe compression of Earth’s magnetosphere – the region around the planet which holds the magnetic field – from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.
The researchers suspect that the geomagnetic storm was powerful enough to actually ‘reconfigure’ our magnetic shield, forcing open weak spots to allow radiation and cosmic rays slip through. It also brought down radio signals and sparked vivid northern lights across many countries in the north of the world. It also resulted in a supercharged aurora borealis, which is created when charged particles from outer space reach Earth’s atmosphere.
The researchers explained the fact that this happened at all is a concern, as it suggests that our magnetic field is changing – or rather, weakening – in certain parts. “The occurrence of this burst also implies a 2-hour weakening of Earth’s protective magnetic shield during this event,” the researchers report.
“[This] indicates a transient weakening of Earth’s magnetic shield, and may hold clues for a better understanding of future superstorms that could cripple modern technological infrastructure on Earth, and endanger the lives of the astronauts in space.”
The data was examined and understood through comprehensive simulation over several weeks by using the 1280-core computing farm that was built in-house by the GRAPES-3 team of physicists and engineers at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty.
https://www.techworm.net/2016/11/scientists-detect-crack-earths-magnetic-shield.html
According to scientists, the world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield. The GRAPES-3 muon telescope recorded the burst when a giant cloud of plasma moving at a speed of 2.5 million kilometres per hour struck Earth last year, causing a severe compression of its magnetosphere and activating a severe geomagnetic storm.
Solar storms can cause major disturbance to human civilisation by affecting satellite operations and communications, large electrical power grids and global positioning systems (GPS).
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty in Tamil Nadu recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 GeV around midnight of 22 June 2015, which lasted for two hours.
The magnetic field bent these particles about 180 degree, where they were detected as a burst by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope last year.
“The simultaneous occurrence of the burst in all nine directions suggests its origin close to Earth,” the authors wrote in the study, published in Physical Review Letters.
The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, struck our planet at a speed of about 2.5 million kilometres per hour, causing a severe compression of Earth’s magnetosphere – the region around the planet which holds the magnetic field – from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.
The researchers suspect that the geomagnetic storm was powerful enough to actually ‘reconfigure’ our magnetic shield, forcing open weak spots to allow radiation and cosmic rays slip through. It also brought down radio signals and sparked vivid northern lights across many countries in the north of the world. It also resulted in a supercharged aurora borealis, which is created when charged particles from outer space reach Earth’s atmosphere.
The researchers explained the fact that this happened at all is a concern, as it suggests that our magnetic field is changing – or rather, weakening – in certain parts. “The occurrence of this burst also implies a 2-hour weakening of Earth’s protective magnetic shield during this event,” the researchers report.
“[This] indicates a transient weakening of Earth’s magnetic shield, and may hold clues for a better understanding of future superstorms that could cripple modern technological infrastructure on Earth, and endanger the lives of the astronauts in space.”
The data was examined and understood through comprehensive simulation over several weeks by using the 1280-core computing farm that was built in-house by the GRAPES-3 team of physicists and engineers at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty.
https://www.techworm.net/2016/11/scientists-detect-crack-earths-magnetic-shield.html
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This is the only article I could find around that time frame, but I don't remember anything either - although I can't remember much of anything anymore.
https://earthsky.org/space/geomagnetic-storm-coming-our-way-june-22-23-2015
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