As some of you will know I report on the space weather regularly when there is something going on…or something might be going on in the hours following the article.

I was shocked yesterday to see reports of a ‘Carrington class event’ that occurred two weeks ago. I trawled the NASA and NOAA sites looking for what I had missed. I had missed nothing, there was no such event. A report on spaceweather.com this morning says:

Many readers are asking about a report in the Washington Examiner, which states that a Carrington-class solar storm narrowly missed Earth two weeks ago. There was no Carrington-class solar storm two weeks ago. On the contrary, solar activity was low throughout the month of July. The report is erroneous. The possibility of such a storm is, however, worth thinking about: A modern Carrington event would cause significant damage to our high-tech society.

I am all in favor of alerting the public of both the United States and the wider world of any incoming event, but throwing out spurious reports serves no purpose.

Some excellent writers from mainstream and alternative media have heard what the ‘experts’ said and went on to write their articles accordingly. I can see why, I almost did the same thing. To have so-called specialists that are on various government committees and panels putting out such erroneous information is, in my opinion, unforgivable.  With all of the real EMP near-misses that have occurred in recent years, one has to wonder what would be the motivation behind publicizing a false report.

When  people supposedly ‘in the know’ spew such drivel it actually has a detrimental effect on preparedness for such a disaster. There have been many cases in the past of tsunami warnings being issued before the full facts are known. The result was that people got used to them and ignored the warnings, leading to many deaths when a large tsunami did arrive.

If these are the people that are in charge of warning the public about an incoming EMP God help us. What I’d like to know is why they would put out such information? What’s the point? What has it achieved except to get them ridiculed?

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Here’s what Jim Woolsey has to say.