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Government Agency Warning: Space Storms Could Cause Mass BLACKOUTS<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Met Office has told United Kingdom ministers that space storms could cause massive blackouts and destroy computers. According to the government agency\u2019s study, a space storm could bring down the internet and all communications.<\/p>\n

According to <\/a>The Sunday Times<\/a>, <\/em>a new report is claiming that\u00a0<\/em>huge solar flares can generate such intense magnetic fields over Earth which in a flash could burn out delicate electronics and even set them on fire.\u00a0The report, co-authored with scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Cambridge University said the UK should construct an early warning system because of their risk.<\/p>\n

Great Britain is at a major risk of being crippled by huge electrical disturbances caused by solar storms in space unless a satellite network is built that can detect them coming. (And if you guessed the taxpayers are going to foot the bill, you\u2019d be correct.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find that for a one-in-100-year event, with no space\u00a0weather forecasting<\/a>\u00a0capability, the gross domestic product loss to the United Kingdom could be as high as \u00a315.9bn,\u201d\u00a0The Met Office study said. \u201cWith existing satellites nearing the end of their life, forecasting capability will decrease in coming years, so if no further investment takes place, critical infrastructure will become more vulnerable to space weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like solar storms of this magnitude have never occurred either.\u00a0 According to Fox News<\/em>,<\/a> In 1859 a giant solar flare doubled the sun\u2019s brightness for a few minutes, followed by a surge in magnetism that caused powerful electrical currents in telegraph wires across Europe igniting widespread fires. Another such solar event in 1989 struck Quebec in Canada and burned out power cables led to a blackout. Researchers fear another such event would burn out high-voltage cables and substations across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Government Agency Warning: Space Storms Could Cause Mass BLACKOUTS The Met Office has told United Kingdom ministers that space storms could cause massive blackouts and destroy computers. According to the government agency\u2019s study, a space storm could bring down the internet and all communications. According to The Sunday Times, a new report is claiming that\u00a0huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[78,4413,4721,6489,23127,1574,1575,6490,739,23128,6377,2080],"class_list":["post-40758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-blackout","tag-great-britain","tag-grid-loss","tag-mac-slavo","tag-met-office","tag-power-grid","tag-power-loss","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-solar-flare","tag-space-weather","tag-sunday-times","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40759,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758\/revisions\/40759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}