Why are Solar Storms being ignored?
Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and super flares have the potential to significantly disrupt our power and internet infrastructure. This video breaks down the causes of these events on our sun, and evaluates the current safety mechanisms in place with the internet's submarine fiber network. Although equipped to handle most moderate solar events, the internet has yet to be sufficiently stress tested for a major solar event.
How prepared are we and how strong can these events be?
Drawing on recent studies and historical evidence, this video challenges conventional assumptions about the severity of solar events and emphasizes the need for more proactive measures to mitigate their impact. As Earth approaches the solar maximum, the importance of awareness and preparedness in safeguarding against future solar storms cannot be understated.
By the end of this video, you'll have a better understanding of our sun, and the impacts solar events can produce here on Earth.
📃Here's an outline:
1:40 | The 1859 Carrington Event & Modern Implications
4:24 | Sunspot Origins & the Sun's Magnetic Field
8:37 | Solar Flares
12:19 | Coronal Mass Ejections
14:23 | Impacts on Earth's Power Grid
15:58 | Impacts on our Internet Infrastructure
22:39 | Miyake Events & Super flares
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🔗References and Links Mentioned in Video:
1) "Solar storms and submarine internet cables", J. Castellanos et al., (2021):
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/22...
2) NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/so...
3) "Comprehensive Radiative MHD Simulations of Eruptive Flares above Collisional Polarity Inversion Lines", Matthias Rempel et al., (2023) ApJ 955 105:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
4) NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
5) "Solar storm Risk to the north American electric grid", Lloyd's of London. (2013):
https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-...
4) "Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse", S. A. Jyothi, (2021) In ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM '21):
https://ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo/papers/...
5) "A 21st century view of the March 1989 magnetic storm", Boteler, D. H. (2019). Space Weather, 17, 1427–1441:
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019SW002278
6) "Space weather benchmarks on Japanese society", M. Ishii et al., (2021). Earth, Planets and Space 73 108:
https://earth-planets-space.springero...
7) "A signature of cosmic-ray increase in AD 774–775 from tree rings in Japan", F. Miyake et al., (2012). Nature 486, 240–242:
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
8) "Marking Time", M. Price, (2023). Science 380 6641:
https://www.science.org/content/artic...
9) : "A radiocarbon spike at 14 300 cal yr BP in subfossil trees provides the impulse response function of the global carbon cycle during the Late Glacial", E. Bard et al., (2023). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 381: 20220206:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206
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