Strange Occurrence in Norway
On the Sixth of January this year, something highly unusual happened in the soil of Northern Norway.
Electrical currents started flowing as charts recorded a sudden surge at around 19:30 UTC:
Likened to some type of shockwave, instruments detected a sudden, strong variation in both ground currents and the local magnetic field.
NASA’s ACE spacecraft detected something as well.
About five minutes before the disturbance the interplanetary magnetic field near earth, (IMF) abruptly swung around 180 degrees as the solar wind density jumped more than 5-fold.
Earth may have crossed through a fold in the heliospheric current sheet–a giant, wavy membrane of electrical current rippling through the solar system, writes Dr. Tony Phillips.
Such crossings can cause these kinds of effects.
While currents flowed through the ground, stunning auroras filled the sky.
The auroras weren’t visible in northern Norway because of the thick cloud cover but photographer Ryan Elzein snapped the corresponding outbursts of light from Utsjoki, Finland.
That electricity flows through the ground during a geomagnetic storm is basic physics says Phillips, noting currents caused by geomagnetic storms can cause voltage fluctuations in power systems and, in extreme cases, complete blackouts.
What was odd about Norway’s event is there was limited geomagnetic activity at the time.
Our universe is electromagnetic, and earth’s magnetosphere is waning in line with historically low solar activity and ongoing magnetic reversal.
‘Space weather’ events that would have ordinarily passed by unnoticed are having an increasingly bigger impact here on the ground.
Which means our modern grid-dependent civilization is entering uncertain times.
Then there is the hypothesis that diminished solar activity will bring about another ice age, however there is another more pressing concern …………….
Worry about decline of Earth’s Magnetosphere
This protective field extends thousands of miles into space and its magnetism affects everything from global communication to animal migration and weather patterns.
It’s said the magnetosphere has weakened by 15% over the last two hundred years with scientist taking it as a sign the Earth’s poles are about to flip, in fact it’s thought to be overdue.
This exposes the earth to solar winds capable of punching holes into the ozone layer, leaving the planet vulnerable to extreme climate change, not to mention knocking out power grids, with an increase in cancer rates.
In fact, a Danish study some years ago concluded the global change in weather patterns is directly linked to the magnetic field rather than CO2 emissions.
‘Radiation could be 3–5 times greater than that from the man-made ozone holes. Furthermore, the ozone holes would be larger and longer-lived,’ said Dr Colin Forsyth from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL.
Space agencies have taken the threat seriously with spacecraft launched as part of the SWARM mission to uncover how the Earth’s magnetic field is changing.
We still don’t fully understand the workings of the Earth’s magnetic field, why it is variable or the timescales of these variations.
