{"id":19024,"date":"2015-11-02T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-active-sun-us-unveils-plan-to-deal-with-space-weather"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:10","slug":"the-active-sun-us-unveils-plan-to-deal-with-space-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-active-sun-us-unveils-plan-to-deal-with-space-weather","title":{"rendered":"The Active Sun: US Unveils Plan to Deal with Space Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-active-sun-us-unveils-plan-to-deal-with-space-weather.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government is getting more serious about dealing with the dangers posed by powerful sun storms.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday (Oct. 29), the White House released two documents that together lay out the nation\u2019s official plan for mitigating the negative impacts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12047-solar-flares-sun-storms-space-weather-infographic.html\">solar flares<\/a> and other types of \u201cspace weather,\u201d which have the potential to wreak havoc on power grids and other key infrastructure here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cNational Space Weather Strategy\u201d outlines the basic framework the federal government will pursue to better understand, predict and recover from space-weather events, while the \u201cNational Space Weather Action Plan\u201d details specific activities intended to help achieve this broad goal. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12584-worst-solar-storms-sun-flares-history.html\">The Sun\u2019s Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52662-united-states-space-weather-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is getting more serious about dealing with the dangers posed by powerful sun storms. On Thursday (Oct. 29), the White House released two documents that together lay out the nation\u2019s official plan for mitigating the negative impacts of solar flares and other types of \u201cspace weather,\u201d which have the potential to wreak [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69255,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions\/69255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}