'Urgent' investigation launched into effects of cosmic rays on airplanes

© AlamyThe Government has ordered Public Health England to conduct an 'urgent' investigation into the repercussions of increased radiation caused by a huge explosion of high energy particles from the surface of the sun

Airline passengers could be vulnerable to the effects of cosmic rays from the sun during a massive solar storm, a new report has found.

The Government has ordered Public Health England to conduct an 'urgent' investigation into the repercussions of increased radiation caused by a huge explosion of high energy particles from the surface of the sun.

This comes as a report into the UK's Space Weather Preparedness outlines what needs to be done to cope with a major burst of 'space weather.'

The document produced by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) states: 'The direct impact on public health from the increased radiation environment, which is most likely to affect the general public if they are travelling by air on trans-oceanic routes during the storm, is assessed to be small.

'However, the work on this area being led by Public Health England needs to be completed urgently.

'That will lead to a report that sets out recommendations for protecting public health from solar radiation.'

However, there are no radiation monitors on board most aircraft and it would not be possible to advise passengers and air crews exposure.

Data from satelites combined with that from ground level monitoring could be used to estimate the dose, but the report states this would take time to calculate.

'Both the monitoring of ground level radiation events and radiation at flight altitude is being considered through the development of a Public Health England report to advice on measures for protecting public health from radiation hazards during an extreme space weather event.'

Adrian Melott, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, told the Telegraph that neutrons which don't reach the ground do reach aircraft altitude.

'Flight crews get a greater radiation dose from neutrons,' he told the newspaper.

'In fact, during solar particle events, aeroplanes are diverted away from the North Pole, where a lot more cosmic rays come down.'

The report says that a massive solar phenomenon would disrupt transport networks, cause blackouts and disrupt satellites.

In the worst case scenario the report fears that humanity could have just 12 hours warning before the storm hits.

There have been a number of recorded severe space weather events over the last two centuries.

The last major coronal mass ejection to hit the Earth, known as the Carrington event, was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm in 1859 and is thought to have been the biggest in 500 years.

At the time technology was still relatively underdeveloped, although Telegraph systems all over the world failed and pylons threw sparks.

A large solar flare in March this year knocked out radio transmissions in some parts of the world.

Reader Comments

Ragnar · 2015-08-12T11:29:51Z

Quote-"increased radiation caused by a huge explosion of high energy particles from the surface of the sun."

A explosion?? Try numerous explosions, many explosions. I think their Geoengineering has weakened the magnetic field that protects people, thus making them more susceptible to extra earth effects. All in the presuit of profit and power.

HashAttack2 · 2015-08-12T12:11:38Z

Like those clever people at CERN ... as they claim themselves:

"All the magnets on the LHC are electromagnets. The main dipoles generate powerful 8.4 tesla magnetic fields – more than 100,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field"

deej · 2015-08-13T00:12:54Z

radiation at cruising altitude

Within the last 3 years, during 3 or 4 flights, I've taken a radiation monitor on board.

At cruising altitude the radiation levels were over 20 times background radiation at ground level - and that's being measured inside the metal skin of the plane.

Ground level levels were typically 20 to 40 counts per second, at altitude, levels were 650 to 1200 counts per second.

So if you fly for a living, you don't need a space weather event to get some pretty significant radiation exposure.

None of the dozen or so people I've talked to in the flight industry had ever heard about the increased radiation exposure they were getting every time they flew.

The shocking part was that none of them seemed very concerned, despite at least one of them having numerous threatening skin spots removed over his flying career.

Ruth · 2015-08-13T02:01:44Z

Probably more concerned about 'terrorism'.

baron · 2015-08-17T06:20:54Z

Thanks for the information deej, your measurements are well supported by others, and of course the fact that you have done this says a lot about your personal awareness. Everything else I say are undoubtedly things you're well aware of.

Space Weather is load of packaged bunk, it's like everything else that comes from Communist Central Mind Control.
Yes, there is such a thing, and yes it does have effects, but that isn't the half of it and they know it.

The ruling crime cabal has been spraying carbon coal waste in the atmosphere since 1996 as part of an on-going attempt to accomplish numerous missions all at once. One, poisoning the oceans and land and selling the story line that it's because of carbon emissions, which they can use as an excuse to tax you for living.

Two, an attempt, (evidently) to modify the effects of solar radiation which were predicted to increase with the uploading of energies being encountered as the entire solar system begins entry in to the charged energy field of the Orion belt of our own Milky Way Galaxy, which is thought to be a vehicle for planetary expansion. See the Expanding Planet Theory for more on this. These increases in radiation are due in part to a collapsing atmosphere as the planet itself begins an expanding phase and the subsequent atmosphere is stretched across a wider/increased sphere. A logical outcome.

Keep in mind there is a lot of logical sounding professional explanations for otherwise illogical events not recorded in human history previously, and these should be treated with skepticism.

Large amounts of data show that the Earth has undergone previous expansions, and some of which cannot be explained away with any logical rationale, only through hodge-podge plausible explanations.

Weather modification was worked in to the plausible explanation program, as part of an over all design to keep humanity from becoming aware of the reality of what was happening, while also working towards an over arching goal to return to a totalitarian form of global rule.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2015-08-13T02:47:10Z

"At cruising altitude the radiation levels were over 20 times background radiation at ground level - and that's being measured inside the metal skin of the plane."

The idiocy gets worse: without an objection raised, Richard Branston Pickle's Virgin Airlines have recently introduced wi-fi to their transatlantic flights, hence both crew and passengers are trapped in a flying microwave oven for eleven hours.