{"id":20164,"date":"2021-09-10T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:09:43","slug":"growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing risk of once-in-a-century solar superstorm that could knock out internet, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CNN Newsource<\/a> – September 10, 2021<\/p>\n

TORONTO (CTV Network<\/a>) \u2014 Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighborhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm.<\/p>\n

It sounds like science fiction, but a new study says it could become our reality earlier than we think if we don\u2019t prepare properly for the next time the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us.<\/p>\n

\u201cAstrophysicists estimate the likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade to be 1.6 \u2014 12 per cent,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaying attention to this threat and planning defenses against it, [\u2026] is critical for the long-term resilience of the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper, written by University of California assistant professor Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, is titled \u201cSolar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n

It paints a scary picture of what could happen if an enormous solar storm hits us: submarine cables between countries shut down, power grids offline, data centres from web giants at risk of going dark.<\/p>\n

But how do we even start protecting against it?<\/p>\n

Solar activity isn\u2019t easy to predict. While we know that the sun has an 11-year cycle that lets us track when solar activity will be higher, whether these high points will have harmless solar flares or large-scale solar weather events isn\u2019t easy to pinpoint.<\/p>\n

The sun also has a longer cycle that takes approximately 80-100 years called the Gleissberg cycle, in which large-scale solar events during solar maxima (the high point of the 11-year-cycle) become four times more likely to occur.<\/p>\n

The two most recent solar cycles, from 1996-2008 and 2008-2020, were part of a minimum activity period during the Gleissberg cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, modern technological advancement coincided with a period of weak solar activity and the sun is expected to become more active in the near future,\u201d the study stated.<\/p>\n

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