Summary

Should we be concerned about NASA’s warning about solar flares? On June 8, a meeting called ‘The Space Weather Enterprise Forum’ was held at the National Press Club in DC. NASA says that the sun is going to produce very high solar flare levels and that our technology & society will be greatly affected. NASA warns that a century-class solar storm coming before the middle of 2013 could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.
Analysis

NASA says, ‘Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history’. And you may have seen articles and YouTube videos that abound on this subject, like this one: ‘Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months’, found at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.html. As an atmospheric scientist, studying the sun for a couple of decades now, I have to say one thing: ‘Oh please, enough drama. This is fear-mongering, mainly hyped-up into a sensationalistic story to grab every soul’s attention.’

As we know, every week, around the planet, there are natural disasters, some small and some large.

So when we hear about a prediction of a large solar flare taking out power […]