Ignorance scares me even more. While 'Experts' will occasionally make a mistake, at least it is quickly corrected. Mistakes by 'ignorance' last for years.
weather experts generally make mistakes on a daily basis.
Ignorance scares me even more. While 'Experts' will occasionally make a mistake, at least it is quickly corrected. Mistakes by 'ignorance' last for years.
Edorr its not a specific event, but rather a cyclic increase in solar activity that we are observing and its impact on modern tech.All I'm saying is predicting the probability of a future discrete event (i.e. a massive solar flare) based on a small set of historical data is completely different proposition than concluding whether or not a historical series of accurate data is trending up or just showing random variance around a steady average.
The former is a so called "black swan event", which is inherently unpredicatable (read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book if you're interested). The latter is statistics 101.
We can have a discussion about the likelyhood of the world getting wiped out in a nuclear war (black swan). Nothing to do with global warming. Different thread.
Ignorance scares me even more. While 'Experts' will occasionally make a mistake, at least it is quickly corrected. Mistakes by 'ignorance' last for years.
Edorr its not a specific event, but rather a cyclic increase in solar activity that we are observing and its impact on modern tech.
If I can find it again, I will give you a link
weather experts generally make mistakes on a daily basis.
No Edorr…not that…a GENERAL rise in activity on a cyclical basis. Not black swan at all and very predictable in occurance, but not intensity nor impact on current living technology standards. I was a big GPS senthusiast a few years back when consumer GPS was nascent and Garmin/TomTom were stock market darlings. It was widely known then that there was a good possibility that we could lose GPS satellite communication because of the solar flare cycle.
The impact on massive power transformers in the gavest of case could make the Iceland ash cloud seem like a joke. It can take 6 months or more to repair such damage to power transmission infrastructure. Imagine half of the US being taken out, or half of Europe? What would be the impact? Our civilization is absolutely fragile.
One thing is pretty clear to me: it's not likely to be the people reading and posting here now who will experience the effects of whatever actions and inactions occur today, but it will be our children, grandchildren and further descendants.