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The Carrington Event may have been more localized than we realized2024 Jan 16
As we enter anther solar maximum on the Sun's 11-year cycle, this article may help lessen fears of an apocalyptic Coronal Mass Ejection frying all electronics on Earth (such as the one which fried telegraph wires, witnessed by Richard Carrington back in 1858) and destroying society (and my camera collection) as we know it. Apparently incidents in 2002 and 2005 were also linked to solar activity, and while they did cause issues, they were obviously not the globe-spanning catastrophe that doomsayers have been predicting.
As we enter anther solar maximum on the Sun's 11-year cycle, this article may help lessen fears of an apocalyptic Coronal Mass Ejection frying all electronics on Earth (such as the one which fried telegraph wires, witnessed by Richard Carrington back in 1858) and destroying society (and my camera collection) as we know it. Apparently incidents in 2002 and 2005 were also linked to solar activity, and while they did cause issues, they were obviously not the globe-spanning catastrophe that doomsayers have been predicting.