{"id":20321,"date":"2015-12-30T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/frighteningly-enormous-solar-flare-update-white-house-prepares-for-coronal-mass-ejection-potential-catastrophic-space-weather-events"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:13:42","slug":"frighteningly-enormous-solar-flare-update-white-house-prepares-for-coronal-mass-ejection-potential-catastrophic-space-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/frighteningly-enormous-solar-flare-update-white-house-prepares-for-coronal-mass-ejection-potential-catastrophic-space-weather-events","title":{"rendered":"Frighteningly Enormous Solar Flare Update: White House Prepares For Coronal Mass Ejection, Potential Catastrophic Space Weather Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/images.starpulse.com\/news\/bloggers\/1340985\/blog_images\/solar-flare-threatening-earth-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many people are looking back on pivotal events of 2015 \u2014 famous deaths, terrorism, and the horse and pony Republican presidential debates \u2014 a disturbing solar flare report is trending again.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the White House made preparations for unpredictable and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/final_nationalspaceweatheractionplan_20151028.pdf\" title=\"Solar Flare Update: White House Space Weather Report\" target=\"_blank\">severe space weather<\/a> events. And much of the clamor focuses on the possibility of a catastrophic coronal mass ejection striking Earth, citing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/\" title=\"AOL Solar Flare Report\" target=\"_blank\">AOL<\/a> latest news story.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>Newsy<\/em> video report (below), an intense solar flare narrowly missed a direct hit with Earth by a matter of days in 2012. NASA said an intense CME launched towards the planet at speeds of over 6 million miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starpulse.com\/news\/index.php\/2015\/12\/29\/frighteningly-enormous-solar-flare-upd\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many people are looking back on pivotal events of 2015 \u2014 famous deaths, terrorism, and the horse and pony Republican presidential debates \u2014 a disturbing solar flare report is trending again. Recently, the White House made preparations for unpredictable and severe space weather events. And much of the clamor focuses on the possibility of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321","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=20321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44759,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions\/44759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}