The Biden administration Tuesday took its first steps toward reversing the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain to oil drilling, by suspending leases issued in the final days of the Trump administration.
The annular phase of this solar eclipse is visible from parts of Russia, Greenland, and northern Canada. Weather permitting, those in Northern Asia, Europe, and the United States will see a partial eclipse.
I wonder how successful fire departments would be at putting out fires during severe solar weather. While it’s safe to say severe solar weather would require shutting down the power grid and would take offline most cellphone service and even radio communications, it’s not clear if it would it be strong enough nterfere with diesel engines or the largely gravity fed water systems.
It really depends on how strong the EMF is from the solar weather, how successful power companies are at grounding out power lines and even how dry the grass is under the certain to be arcing power lines. Peppers aren’t wrong to be very concerned with severe solar weather. It really would be very devastating in modern society.
I will say we did save a lot and many things were already archived. But many of the files upstairs were forever lost.
