But Dr Young said that coronal mass ejections, or CME as they are known, do little more than cause a dazzling light show in the sky.
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‘If we have a really big one you can have a very strong aurora, but then it can effect satellites and power grids, and so these are the kind of things that people who run these systems know about.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, because these are known<\/em>, there’s nothing to worry about then. Who needs satellites and electricity? I wonder if he knows that 90% of GPS receivers use the satellites for timing, not location. If those satellites go, then ATMs stop functioning, the stock market stops functioning, and much more. And without electricity, Europe and the USA would be totally screwed, with many millions dying.<\/div>\n
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This is standard spin. Discount an extreme scenario that nobody is suggesting, and fail to address the real concerns<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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You just know I’m going to be critical of this news item…
\nDr Alex Young, a heliophysicist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said we don’t need to worry about the sun for another few billion years – and certainly not in 2012.<\/p>\n
He said: ‘We understand the sun well enough, with all the technology and all the science – and all of the many spacecraft we have that are monitoring it 24 hours a day, seven days a week – to know that this super storm that is going to wipe out the earth simply isn’t going to happen.’
\nYep, once more an expert has decided to ignore the concepts of global cataclysms, and TEOTWAWKI, and just address the complete destruction of planet Earth. Any 2012 survivalist obviously don’t expect that to happen… because nobody would survive.
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