June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... that the cost of electrical power reconstruction in North America alone would be $2.7 trillion dollars. In 1859, the famous ‘Carrington event’ created a surge of energy that set fire to telegraph offices and brought the Northern Lights down to the...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... mass ejection that brings millions of tons of ions travelling perhaps at two million kilometres an hour, similar to the Carrington Event of 1859, might leave the world’s economic systems and global infrastructure in shambles. And we do not have...
