Why, Claud, oh why.. do you dodge my question about you being the supposed “author” of this mess..
According to the poorly written and ill-designed blog,
“By Claude Nelson”... a whole different “Claud” is the supposed “author”.
Please explain how this can be.
Solar scientists have diagnosed that event as basically a GEOS X-Class solar flare that had flooded all sunward facing parts of the Earth with a huge magnetic flux wave. The flare acted much like an EMP attack - but instead of attacking a single country it was a natural event that happened across the whole hemisphere facing the sun.
The Carrington Event of 1859 made telegraph machines catch fire. Can you imagine what that would do today? In a flare that powerful every electronic component on the sunward face of the Earth could get fried: Every vehicle, every appliance, every gas station pump, everything would be gone. Half the planet could be knocked back to pre-Industrial times in 60 minutes.
The post was submitted by C. Nelson (who is a friend) together with copyrights. Then it was corrected (by me) and posted.
I’m sorry that you think it’s a “mess”. I find it interesting and useful! But you can’t please everybody...