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NZ s potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: We re not learning
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Experts including a former chief science advisor say New Zealand s risk-management systems are flawed and we can no longer rely on our she ll be right mantra. By Donna Chisholm.
The email giving New Zealand 24
hours warning of a potentially catastrophic solar flare landed in chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman s inbox in late July 2012. It was an alert from his UK counterpart, Sir John Beddington, advising of a severe space weather event known as a mass coronal ejection. A huge amount of matter had been released from the sun that, if directed at the Earth, would cause a geomagnetic storm with the potential to destroy critical infrastructure including satellites, GPS systems and electricity grids. ....

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