The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January and a very disappointing report refrigeration.
Basically, the report stresses that plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wegzaubern our power grids, with irreparable consequences. For those of us in Houston, the electricity for two days to two weeks, an idea of what life without power can mean, but for a year or more? Is that the lives of people with the strength we have today?
Specifically, Daniel Baker, a space of time the expert from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the chairman of the committee responsible for the NAS report, said: “We are moving closer to the border of a possible disaster. “The guy is on point!
It is difficult to understand the sun and a lot of our hard-won progress. However, it is possible. The surface of the sun is a mass of roiling plasma – charged particles to high energy – some of the surface and travel into space as solar wind. From time to time, as wind energy to a billion tons of plasma glob, a ball of fire as a frontal mass ejection. If you go on earth, magnetically shielded, the result could really be devastating.
Thus, the chances WHAT’RE? There is none. It may happen, and it has already happened.
The penetration of plasma in the atmosphere leads to changes in the configuration of the Earth magnetic field, which can induce flow throughout electrical son. The networks were not designed for this type of electrical current. The greatest danger is to “step-up and step-down transformers are used to transport electricity from the power of useful tension within the country. The increase in electrical current, a transformer to saturate the magnetic core. The result is under transforming the Runaway copper wiring, which heats up very quickly and substance. This is exactly what happens in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989 and six million people have passed 9 hours without electricity. But things could be much more serious than that.
We live by the grace of a lot more than we can imagine, but as soon as we are, how we live, we are better able to anticipate and prepare for the real possibilities, they are on 21 December 2012, or tomorrow.

Sunspots are large islands of the planet’s magnetism on the surface of the sun, they are sources of sun flares, frontal mass ejections and the intensity of UV radiation. Plotting sunspot account, Schwabe saw that the peak solar activity increasingly followed by the valleys of the relative tranquility a clockwork model, also for over 200 years: the plot.

Where does this, perhaps the meaning is that the eleven years, abnormal low, which could lead, that defects heights in 2012. What is the watchword. We have on site, the cycle ends Sunday # 23, we have a 40% increase in solar activity. Thus, as we are on the peak of cycle # 24 we will see an increase of 40%? If yes, we have many problems in our hands.

Currently, as we should from the low activity, we see very little data and figures.

We see a 50-week low in solar wind pressure. Measurements of the Ulysses spacecraft show a decrease of 20% of the solar wind pressure since the mid-1990s, the lowest point since these measures began in the 1960s. The solar wind protects from galactic cosmic rays from within the solar system. Solar wind with the message, more cosmic rays are allowed, that increased risks to the health of astronauts.

We see a 12-week low in solar irradiance. Measures of NASA satellite show that the sun’s brightness is 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% in UV wavelengths, because solar energy to at least 1996.

We are in a 55-week low in solar energy, emissions of Radio: After the Second World War, started by astronomers, the accounts for the brightness of the sun at radio wavelengths. Discs of 10.7 cm to extend river again in the early 1950s. Radio telescopes are the registration of the variation “Radio Soleil since 1955: plot. Some researchers believe that reducing emissions of the radio is a sign of weakness in the sun in the global magnetic field.

These historic lows have sparked a debate on whether the minimum price “strange”, “extreme” or just a delay of “correction” of a number of rare intensity solar maximum. Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, solar activity was generally high. Five of the ten largest solar cycles have registration in the last 50 years. We are simply not that kind of deep silence. So what about all these anomalies?

Modern technology can not predict what comes next. Models of competition from dozens of Top-Solar-physicist not, sometimes significantly, if the solar minimum stops and the magnitude of the next solar maximum. The truth is that nobody fully understands the underlying physics of the sunspot cycle. What we know is that naxt solar maximum is approximately in December 2012.

With a bell ringing?

Note: Between March and April-September-November, summer in the northern hemisphere, in several countries where the surveys may DST, while in the southern hemisphere, it is the winter. While the rest of the year, the substantive contradictions: It’s summer in the south and winter in the northern hemisphere.

First, Benjamin Franklin suggested in daylight saving time in 1784, but summer time is not on the eve of World War I in 1916 to summer time was heard by a number of departments in Europe, first, the idea.

And it is difficult to predict what it is summer time in the future. Several countries to change the date on certain conditions or events. Canada, the United States and some other countries in the extended DST in 2007. And the cost of beginning is the 2 Sunday of the month of March throughout the primary Sunday in November.

Summer time in the world
Today, some 70 countries use daylight saving time in at least part of the country. Japan, India and China are the only major industrialized countries, which do not observe some form of summer time.

When summer time?

Summer Time or Daylight Saving Time begins and ends.

United States
United States, DST begins at 2:00 am local time, on the second Sunday in March and returns to standard time at 2:00 am local time on the first Sunday of November. Summer time is not in Hawaii or Arizona, with the exception of the Navajo Nation, the DST, even in Arizona. In 2009, DST begins on March 8 and ends on November 1st. In 2010, DST begins March 14 and ends November 7.

European Union
The EU summer time begins to 1:00 hours of the meridian of Greenwich, the last Sunday of March and the standard time of 1:00 GMT on the last Sunday of October. Edit all time zones at the same time. While European nations have used a time of season for decades, during the years 1996 to EU standards of the summer period. In 2009, DST starts on 29 March and ends on October 25. In 2010, DST begins March 28 and ends October 31.

Litigation
Even in countries where DST DST have been for many years, many people of the intensity of the aversion semestriels time.

Contradictions around him and DST DST:

Sleep disorders
Many people complain about the inconvenience to adapt to a new sleep schedule, when the time changes. This is a nuisance for most people with sleep disorders, the transition can be very difficult.

Lost productivity
There are signs that the work productivity decreases, as the time change.

The severity of car accidents
There are signs that the seriousness of car accidents increases, as is time to change.

Inconvenience
Often complain about the inconvenience of changing their watches twice per year.

Dérangé morning
The man, who at dawn, or whose listings are otherwise Sunrise, complain about the adaptation. Canadian poultry producer Marty Notenbomer: “The hen does not adapt to change hours to weeks, while the first week of April and the last week of October is very frustrating for us.

Religious practices
In Israel, ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews have against summer time, as they recite prayers Slikhot penitentiary in the early hours of the morning in the Jewish month of Elul.

Some experts feel in 2009, the worst tornado in the season and after a few years, basic knowledge for many, is in order. Tornadoes are winds in the world with winds of more than hurricanes. Contrary to what most people think, most do not come the night, but also between the hours of 2:00 and 10:00. You can at any time of year, if conditions are favorable. Most injuries are falling rocks.

Here are three easy to understand and easy to remember advice for your safety:

1 – Tornado Tornado Watch or Warning, if it is serious? Tornado warning means authorities warn you covered. These words mean a tornado is imminent (a funnel cloud touched down, close). If you have something, as I am and every year you wonder what is worse, or a tornado warning Watch, remember, if you word CAUTION, CAUTION they actually cover you.

2 – The best way to survive a tornado tube. For most people, this means that the subsoil. If you’re not here to go to the sub-center of a home or as close as possible to the center of the home page as possible, preferably a bathroom. All health facilities in the bathroom as the room to help you be more secure.

3 – Yes, at the time the radio. These radios are about twenty dollars. They remain silent and can not remain motionless in a corner of a room in your house, but when bad weather near there an audible alarm, with information and advice on what is happening. These radios are very useful, they work in a calm day and night for your safety.

In addition, many people are wondering why tornadoes increasingly to be taken which are mobile homes. It seems that the only, because these apartments simply not tornadoes. In fact, some statistics show that you are sure in a ditch in a motorhome!

The most devastating tornadoes are not those massive. All tornadoes are extremely dangerous and simple but effective plan of what we should do “just in case” is a necessity.