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	The Geomagnetic Apocalypse

janekl

4-25-2009 5:04 PM

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apocalypse, 2012, geomagnetics, powergrid

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3d5f77d0-5a41-4205-aaa4-b2e53a8be9f3/41E06E63-323B-4B18-BBC6-673C2F0EA808/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/DAD1C204-BA7E-41D3-9675-22A89FB8CB64" alt="156196main_sunearth_01_2400x1876" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html">Entitled "<A href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507">Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts</A>," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth's magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html"><P>Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/news/themis_leaky_shield.html">unusually large hole</A> in Earth's geomagnetic shield, meaning we'll have less protection than usual from the solar flares. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html"><P>But the report is credible enough that some scientists and engineers are beginning to take the electromagnetic threat seriously. According to Lawrence Joseph, author of "<A href="http://www.apocalypse2012.com/">Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End</A>," "I've been following this topic for almost five years, and it wasn't
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