The Culture War - Tim Pool - December 04, 2025


Radiation At 20 YEAR HIGH, Solar Storm GETS WORSE, Airbus Says WE ARE NOT READY


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Solar radiation is at a 20-year high, and some scientists are worried it could signal a major change in our energy supply. What will it do to our infrastructure? And what will it mean for climate change? Today's episode is brought to you by Popular Science and The Planetary Society.

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00:00:00.000 I have a question for you.
00:00:01.440 I'd like you to comment and share your answers.
00:00:06.100 In your lifetime, in the lower 48, how many times have you seen the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis?
00:00:16.720 One thing that is very strange right now is that we have had, I believe, five events in two years.
00:00:24.400 And this is supposed to be extremely rare.
00:00:27.460 Something that happens only a handful of times every century.
00:00:32.060 Now we are getting new reports that the Aurora will be visible again across the United States, not too far south like last time, like we saw a month ago.
00:00:42.900 Still, seemingly very rare, but happening with increased frequency.
00:00:49.400 Now, what does this mean?
00:00:50.780 Well, according to your mainstream scientists, it's just peak solar activity.
00:00:55.200 And the magnetosphere, which protects us from the solar activity, is, well, it's weakening.
00:01:01.180 But it's all normal.
00:01:03.420 Nothing to see here.
00:01:05.140 Everyone calm down.
00:01:07.000 But at the very least, I can entertain some potential hypotheses, theories.
00:01:12.500 And one of these is that a great pole shift is coming. 0.99
00:01:17.400 We are overdue.
00:01:18.620 And when this happens, we will not be protected from solar activity, which is unusually strong.
00:01:23.800 Or at least in comparison with our weak magnetic sphere, it seems unusually strong.
00:01:28.980 This can send us back to the Stone Age or cripple the global infrastructure for decades.
00:01:40.200 I don't know how bad it will really get.
00:01:42.540 But I think about all this climate change talk, the efforts that are being made.
00:01:46.120 And I feel like I can connect these dots into a bigger picture of the elites are afraid there is a pole shift coming. 0.98
00:01:55.820 Maybe not.
00:01:57.180 Maybe it's all hubbub.
00:01:58.700 Maybe it's just, I don't know, we're bored and looking for something.
00:02:02.200 Or maybe the signs are really there.
00:02:04.400 Well, let's take a look at the latest breaking news.
00:02:07.780 And again, you tell me, does this seem strange?
00:02:11.720 The story I have for you today, opening this segment, flight radiation has reached a 20-year high during the recent solar outburst.
00:02:21.680 And as Airbus has reminded us last week, we're not ready.
00:02:26.620 Wait, what?
00:02:27.940 Flight radiation at a 20-year high?
00:02:31.240 Why are all of these stories popping up, but very few are actually connecting the dots?
00:02:36.180 We've had cell network outages in Europe, in Puerto Rico, power grid failures.
00:02:42.920 And we have seen the aurora borealis at this time of year in this part of the country several times.
00:02:52.400 So maybe it's catastrophizing.
00:02:55.620 Maybe this is just something that happens.
00:02:58.320 Or maybe there's a reason why powerful elites are building bunkers in the mountains and prioritizing the expansion of alternative energy sources that can exist in areas where there's no access to oil, while at the same time investing everything in oil.
00:03:14.080 What would the point be?
00:03:16.260 They claim climate change.
00:03:17.600 We've got to get off oil.
00:03:19.060 Yet many of these same people that are talking about the need for wind turbines and solar farms still utilizing and investing in oil.
00:03:26.620 Hypocrisy, some say.
00:03:29.420 Or, I have a theory.
00:03:32.040 If there were to be a great pole shift, or the big one, they call it, a Carrington event-sized coronal mass ejection just blasting our infrastructure, how would we restore power?
00:03:45.480 If we can't pump the oil, how are we going to fuel our machines?
00:03:48.580 Well, just so happens, thanks to these climate change advocates, we've been building alternate sources of energy which can be placed in areas where there's no oil to deliver energy, or an area where we could pump oil and restore our energy infrastructure if only we had existing energy to do it.
00:04:06.880 That is, if we've got no fuel and our systems are fried, how do we pump the oil we have beneath us?
00:04:14.200 Wind turbine.
00:04:15.840 But let's talk about all this.
00:04:17.280 And we'll start with this story about Airbus saying, we're not ready.
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00:05:47.100 Here's the story from Gizmodo.
00:05:49.200 Flight radiation reached 20-year high.
00:05:52.060 The sun is currently in its active phase and has been unleashing a steady stream of powerful solar flares, triggering severe geomagnetic storms on Earth.
00:06:02.180 But the consequence of these solar outbursts may be more significant than the occasional satellite disruption or sudden appearance of brilliant northern lights.
00:06:10.120 The sudden appearance of brilliant northern lights is an omen, by the way.
00:06:13.980 It's like a bad sign of things that are coming.
00:06:16.880 In a recent release, the Surrey Space Center in the United Kingdom reported that a burst of solar activity caused a sharp radiation spike, strong enough to be detected at ground level.
00:06:25.320 Early analyses revealed that radiation levels at 40,000 feet, altitudes frequented by commercial airplanes, peaked at 10 times the normal range, surpassing the previous record set nearly 20 years ago.
00:06:38.760 So when they say 20-year high, it's worse than the 20-year high.
00:06:44.400 It's higher.
00:06:45.600 This was the strongest ground-level event we've seen since December of 2006.
00:06:50.780 Clive Dyer, a climate scientist at the University of Surrey at the U.K., said in a statement,
00:06:57.520 We know from historical observations that significantly bigger events are possible, and we need to be ready.
00:07:03.460 The sun follows a 22-year magnetic cycle with solar activity rising and peaking roughly every 11 years.
00:07:09.240 But when conditions are right, solar flares also fire off coronal mass ejections or large plasma expulsions that tamper with Earth's magnetic field.
00:07:19.420 Well, my friends, currently, as of now, from NOAA, we are in a G3 solar storm.
00:07:27.740 This is from the evening of Wednesday, December 3rd, G3 warning.
00:07:35.320 An anticipated coronal hole high-speed stream is having early-related effects, and a G3 warning was issued into Wednesday evening.
00:07:43.320 G3 levels were first reached at 331.
00:07:46.140 Effects can change quickly, etc., etc.
00:07:47.960 What can be expected?
00:07:48.820 They say geomagnetic activity can vary considerably during storm progression, with intermittent periods of escalation or weakening as the major disturbances in solar winds continues.
00:07:59.700 Monitor SWPC webpage for additional information.
00:08:03.540 How far can auroras be observed?
00:08:07.140 I am showing you this right now, my friends.
00:08:09.420 According to NOAA.gov, the auroras are going to, once again, it appears, according to this, it's kind of hard to see because it's a little small,
00:08:20.800 it looks like it's going to reach southern Illinois, St. Louis, Tennessee, not quite Texas, but Nebraska, West Virginia, D.C., Virginia.
00:08:33.340 Wow.
00:08:36.620 Now, why does that matter?
00:08:38.440 I have this video.
00:08:40.080 Ben Davidson.
00:08:41.040 Maybe the video is a little sensational.
00:08:42.740 Shout out to Ben.
00:08:43.620 He is at Sunweatherman.
00:08:45.600 I'm going to play the video for you because there's something interesting he says that I think we should bring up in this context.
00:08:52.500 All right.
00:08:53.120 I have to be a little quiet because my children are still asleep, but I also had to—I don't know what the hell this is,
00:08:59.880 but do you understand what's happening when we get a story like the top story in the morning news today about them spotting the galactic magnetic reversal and it's local?
00:09:10.600 Do you understand what it's like, what was that, a week or two ago, geodesy breaking down?
00:09:15.340 This isn't like, oh, like, we're changing atmospheric chemistry.
00:09:20.060 We're talking about the solid Earth changing known patterns that have stood the test of geologic time.
00:09:28.180 And what?
00:09:31.800 We're so close.
00:09:33.620 We're like one more big auroral event away from a whole heck of a lot of people being like, okay, wait a minute.
00:09:43.480 I've been on this planet a while.
00:09:45.860 Not used to seeing this.
00:09:47.500 We're so close.
00:09:49.260 Now, hold on there a gosh darn minute there, Ben Davidson. 0.94
00:09:51.740 We—he posted this 7.19 a.m., and he said one more auroral event from people saying, hold on there a gosh darn minute.
00:10:03.740 And the scientists are already there.
00:10:05.540 It was about two or three years ago.
00:10:07.640 So I sent you guys the video message from a whole bunch of my friends who need to remain in the shadows because they're the ones with access to information.
00:10:20.540 It's where we get so much of the hints about where to look for stuff.
00:10:25.820 And it's good to be the nexus, but if the network breaks, there is no nexus.
00:10:37.180 You guys might remember I told you that they were saying that they are all getting ready to start dripping this information
00:10:42.740 because they figure it out as long as you don't just give away the whole bag in one paper.
00:10:47.340 If you don't try to just tear it all down with one swing, you can let the drops accumulate, and they're accumulating very quickly.
00:10:57.360 And there's about to be a complete shift of—I don't know if the Overton window is the right way to put it
00:11:04.160 because I think that that's more in terms of, like, what's politically okay to talk about.
00:11:08.040 But whatever the version of the Overton window is in terms of science and culture and mainstream discussions,
00:11:15.100 even people talking to each other, I don't know if you guys saw the post,
00:11:21.420 but pretty much every AI, when prompted neutrally, will suggest that whatever the Overton window of the rest of Worldly,
00:11:38.040 discourse is, it is moving in this direction, and there's about to be a cliff that it's going to fall off of.
00:11:48.420 I don't completely disagree.
00:11:52.000 And what that means is, I don't know for sure, but when I saw this video, it got me thinking.
00:11:58.880 Forbes.com, giant new sunspot, and X-class solar flare could bring bright auroras.
00:12:06.820 December 1st, once again from Forbes, northern lights alert upgraded.
00:12:12.780 22 states may see the Aurora Wednesday.
00:12:15.240 Hold on a minute.
00:12:17.700 How many times in your life have you seen the Aurora in southern United States?
00:12:25.000 Maybe I'm just totally wrong reading this.
00:12:28.120 It's sensationalized.
00:12:29.920 Okay.
00:12:31.560 Okay.
00:12:32.920 Interesting either way.
00:12:34.380 Because that's why I ask you to answer this question.
00:12:36.840 Because for me, it's none.
00:12:39.720 It's in the past couple of years.
00:12:41.300 Because I don't remember any big moments.
00:12:44.100 I think there might have been like one in like the 2000s, where they were like, oh yeah,
00:12:48.360 the Aurora is going to be like just north of Chicago, maybe Wisconsin or something.
00:12:51.980 It's getting real far.
00:12:54.260 Now it's like every other year?
00:12:56.440 And it's happening again?
00:12:57.760 It just happened a month ago and a year before that.
00:13:00.660 Three times in like a year and a half?
00:13:04.740 Okay.
00:13:05.740 I'm wrong.
00:13:07.420 Guys, I'm not a scientist.
00:13:10.080 I don't know nothing about no Auroras.
00:13:12.120 Saw them when I went to Alaska.
00:13:13.620 Beautiful.
00:13:14.780 What do I know?
00:13:16.700 But it's interesting.
00:13:18.160 With Ben saying we are one more Aurora event away from people starting to ask, hold on a minute.
00:13:23.540 I live my whole life here.
00:13:26.080 This is not normal.
00:13:28.060 What does it really mean?
00:13:29.560 Perhaps it could just be that we're in a high solar activity period and the magnetosphere is weak a little bit, but it's no big deal.
00:13:39.720 Well, I hate to connect dots that don't need to be connected.
00:13:42.780 But it is true that billionaires are building bunkers, and we don't know why.
00:13:46.620 A simple answer is that when you're a billionaire and you have the money, why not have a bunker?
00:13:51.520 I don't have a bunker, but I do have a storeroom with food and weapons in it because why not?
00:13:59.260 You know, I guess.
00:14:00.680 So maybe that's it.
00:14:01.580 Maybe the billionaires are like, I don't know.
00:14:03.080 It's cool to have.
00:14:04.520 Maybe I'll need it, but I got the money, so why not?
00:14:07.480 I thought about this quite a bit when I was discussing with Ben the pole shift theory.
00:14:14.020 And he was saying that if the poles shift, if the axis tilts, it's a catastrophic conspiracy theory, they call it.
00:14:20.540 Conspiracy theory is not the right way to put it.
00:14:23.060 Let me pull it up.
00:14:24.500 Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis they call pseudoscientific.
00:14:27.760 I always hate the term pseudoscientific.
00:14:30.520 I mean, sure, like flat earth or whatever.
00:14:33.400 But saying, like, I don't know, maybe it could happen.
00:14:35.940 There's reason to believe it.
00:14:37.080 I think that's fine.
00:14:38.160 If it happens, there's supposed to be major flooding.
00:14:40.060 And it got me thinking about these climate change theories that they're bringing up.
00:14:45.780 They're saying it's getting hotter.
00:14:47.200 Could it be that our magnetosphere is weakening?
00:14:49.980 The pole shift is coming. 0.94
00:14:51.880 Ben is saying the Overton window on science is shifting.
00:14:55.880 It's starting to become more acceptable to discuss these things.
00:14:58.060 And I think so because you can't ignore auroras like this.
00:15:01.320 It got me thinking.
00:15:03.200 Why build a bunker?
00:15:04.700 Do the powerful elites know that something is coming?
00:15:07.240 Maybe it's not this.
00:15:07.900 I don't know.
00:15:09.240 But they're building bunkers.
00:15:11.040 Now, for me, civil war, right?
00:15:13.900 We're concerned about political conflict in this country.
00:15:16.440 So that's clearly what my motivations are for having store food and weapons.
00:15:19.980 I want to make sure that my family is able to eat.
00:15:22.400 That's it.
00:15:23.520 What are the billionaires worried about?
00:15:24.920 Why are they building mountain bunkers?
00:15:27.400 Why on a far-off island in Hawaii?
00:15:30.760 What other things are going to happen?
00:15:32.860 I started thinking about it.
00:15:33.940 What would I do if I was a world leader and we knew that there was going to be a possible
00:15:39.280 pole shift reversal and we would be sent back to the Stone Age?
00:15:42.800 What would I do?
00:15:44.740 Well, I do a handful of things.
00:15:45.960 One, emergency underground bunkers for continuity of government.
00:15:52.560 So, D.C. being our capital, I would want mountain bunkers underground, protected from
00:15:59.860 any catastrophe, elevated so no flooding.
00:16:03.380 Oh, they built Raven Rock and Mount Weather.
00:16:06.440 These are known about.
00:16:08.080 What about the ones we don't know about?
00:16:10.320 Raven Rock and Mount Weather, for those that aren't familiar, it's where the government is
00:16:13.320 expected to go when a major catastrophe happens.
00:16:15.920 They've been around for a long time, recently getting renovated.
00:16:19.340 So, no reason to connect those dots, right?
00:16:22.280 But I would have that.
00:16:23.200 What else would I do?
00:16:24.620 Well, I'd say to my team, okay, after this happens, we maintain continuity of government.
00:16:29.680 What do we do next?
00:16:31.100 Well, we're going to need to restore infrastructure.
00:16:33.720 We need power.
00:16:34.840 All right, well, we have oil.
00:16:36.100 Oil's great, not electric.
00:16:38.100 Yes, but how do we pump the oil without the energy?
00:16:40.340 We can hand pump it, but we'll be starting very small and very slow.
00:16:43.180 So, how do we get energy generation so we can get the oil out and start rebuilding our
00:16:50.160 oil infrastructure?
00:16:52.200 Well, sir, wind turbines, solar energy, hydroelectric, these are great ways to generate energy,
00:17:00.220 alternative sources, and we can put them anywhere.
00:17:05.220 I thought about this because of the show Landman.
00:17:07.720 There's a scene where Billy Bob walks out with that young liberal lawyer, and he's got wind
00:17:11.900 turbines, and she says something like, oh, green energy encroaching on your space, and
00:17:17.460 he goes, not green, alternative.
00:17:19.320 The reason the wind turbines are brought out to the middle of the desert is because they
00:17:22.440 power the oil pumps.
00:17:24.220 If you want to get electricity to these areas where there's no grid, what are you going
00:17:29.140 to do, build transmission lines?
00:17:30.420 No.
00:17:30.620 You put up the wind turbines, and the wind will help pump the oil.
00:17:34.860 Oil's got a better energy return on energy invested.
00:17:38.280 Then we can see this massive effort to build wind turbines everywhere.
00:17:42.260 Now, I'm not saying the wind turbines are shielded and they'd survive the mass flooding,
00:17:46.020 but the capability to rapidly deploy alternative energy sources would allow us to restore,
00:17:52.640 at least in a limited capacity right away, infrastructure, electric vehicles, and then our oil infrastructure.
00:17:58.740 Maybe there's nothing going on.
00:18:01.360 I don't know.
00:18:02.900 But we're seeing more and more of these stories pop up.
00:18:05.820 For instance, I think I have this one.
00:18:08.000 This is from esa.int.
00:18:10.260 Swarm reveals growing weak spot in the Earth's magnetic field.
00:18:13.500 It is.
00:18:14.240 It's true.
00:18:14.760 A massive weak spot.
00:18:16.420 It's called the Southern Atmospheric Anomaly just over Brazil and South America.
00:18:20.960 And they say everywhere, nothing to worry about.
00:18:24.040 It's growing.
00:18:25.080 It's rapidly expanded.
00:18:26.440 Now the size of Europe, or actually bigger, nothing to worry about.
00:18:31.340 Okay, that was a little crude.
00:18:32.840 Maybe there really is nothing to worry about.
00:18:34.260 I don't know.
00:18:35.380 But more and more we're getting news that drips coming out that sound a bit alarming.
00:18:41.620 So I did this.
00:18:43.260 Went to our friend Grok.
00:18:45.620 And it's not perfect, but I asked it.
00:18:49.080 As Ben was pointing out, you go to these ads, you ask it questions, right?
00:18:51.580 Are there any patterns that could indicate the polls will shift soon?
00:18:54.060 And it says, shift and soon, depends on your definition of shift and soon, a full geomagnetic
00:18:59.900 reversal or a geomagnetic excursion, which is happening right now.
00:19:05.880 That's right.
00:19:06.980 A geomagnetic excursion is when the polls move a little bit.
00:19:11.120 And right now, they have.
00:19:13.760 Does it mean they're going to flip?
00:19:14.600 I don't know.
00:19:15.060 The last full reversal that we know about is the Brunez Matsuyama, 780,000 years ago.
00:19:23.160 The average interval in the last 83 million years is around 455,000 years, but we're well
00:19:28.620 past that.
00:19:30.840 Interesting.
00:19:31.900 Being overdue doesn't mean it's likely tomorrow.
00:19:35.380 Statistically, reversal timing looks more like a random process than a clock.
00:19:38.760 Field intensity is down 10% since 1840, now around 15% to 20% weaker than the mid-Holocene
00:19:47.040 peak.
00:19:47.860 Right before a dramatic reversal, it's 50% to 90%.
00:19:51.660 But can I just point out, like, history is condensed and maybe it could take a year or
00:19:58.700 two.
00:19:59.180 And as Ben Davidson predicts, 2040s maybe.
00:20:01.660 It says the magnetic north is moving around 55 kilometers per year towards Siberia.
00:20:08.500 It accelerates before reversal.
00:20:10.800 We are seeing many of these warning signs.
00:20:13.400 The dipole has only fallen about 20 to 25% from its recent maximum, not the 80 to 90% seen
00:20:18.220 in records right before reversals.
00:20:20.500 So the field is weakening and behaving strangely, but not yet at reversal thresholds, which, if Ben
00:20:26.640 is right, makes sense.
00:20:28.740 But that's why he thinks so.
00:20:29.860 He's looking at these saying, if this continues, it looks like a pole shift in 2040.
00:20:35.000 They say, magnetic north has accelerated from around 15 kilometers a year and in the 90s
00:20:40.460 to 55.
00:20:41.960 World magnetic model has been updated in 2019 and again in 2020 because the pole moved
00:20:46.000 faster than predicted.
00:20:47.060 This means GPS and compasses and maps are going to get all wonky and our instruments and our
00:20:52.300 flight navigation will get all wonky because magnetic north is moving.
00:20:55.840 So we have maps and look, if you go north, you'll end up here, but north moves here, you're going
00:21:01.660 to go the wrong direction.
00:21:03.920 Some models predict magnetic north could cross the geographic north pole into Russia by 2030
00:21:08.600 or 24 and keep going.
00:21:10.460 This kind of rapid motion happened during the Lashamp excursion 41,000 years ago.
00:21:15.780 They say full reversal, possible but not highly probable in the next few centuries.
00:21:21.980 Most experts put probability at around 10, less than 10 to 20 percent the next thousand
00:21:26.000 years.
00:21:27.140 Bottom line, yes, there are clear patterns that match the early stages of past reversals.
00:21:33.700 We are in an unusual period of geomagnetic restlessness, but none of this data say a flip is imminent
00:21:40.400 on a human timescale.
00:21:41.840 The most likely near-term scenario is continued fast wander and possibly an excursion within
00:21:46.640 centuries.
00:21:47.640 If you're asking because of navigation satellites radiation concerns, the bigger immediate issue
00:21:51.180 is the weakening field already letting in more cosmic rays and solar particles rather
00:21:56.920 than an actual flip.
00:21:59.920 Interesting.
00:22:01.120 The weakening field, like these auroras that we're seeing?
00:22:06.460 I asked Chachi PT, how common is it for the aurora to be seen in the lower 48?
00:22:11.020 It says, seeing the aurora in the lower 40 is uncommon, but it does happen, mostly during
00:22:17.180 strong geomagnetic storms.
00:22:19.720 Regional frequencies estimate, blah, blah, blah.
00:22:21.760 I said, how often has the aurora been seen in the south?
00:22:25.580 And it says, auroras in the U.S. south are extremely rare and have only happened during the
00:22:31.100 strongest geomagnetic storms ever recorded.
00:22:33.840 Except twice in the past year, right?
00:22:36.300 Weird.
00:22:36.580 The 1859 Carrington event, people saw it as far south as Columbia, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hawaii.
00:22:45.140 That was the big one, they call it.
00:22:47.160 Once every 150 to 200 years.
00:22:50.280 1921, the New York Railroad storm.
00:22:53.380 Auroras were visible in Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina.
00:22:57.420 A once-in-a-century event.
00:22:59.260 And we just saw the aurora in Texas.
00:23:04.360 It's been a century.
00:23:07.580 Then we saw it again a year later.
00:23:09.880 That's twice.
00:23:11.960 1989, as far down as the—in 1989, as far south as the Midwest.
00:23:18.560 Reports reached Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama as faint borderline.
00:23:21.900 May 11th, 2024, it was visible across the entire United States, including Florida, Texas, Georgia,
00:23:29.700 South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana.
00:23:32.000 Maybe once every 20 to 30 years.
00:23:34.980 What about twice in a year?
00:23:37.020 I said, we just saw it in Texas.
00:23:38.500 And he goes, oh, did ya?
00:23:39.640 So I said, here's the link.
00:23:41.680 And it goes, nice.
00:23:43.780 Thanks for sharing that.
00:23:44.460 It's a recent confirmed aurora sighting in Texas.
00:23:47.760 Reports that the northern lights were visible across Texas during a storm.
00:23:50.800 Photos reportedly came as far south as Hill County.
00:23:54.200 So your sighting appears to be part of a genuine documented aurora event.
00:23:58.300 Texas is far south of where auroras are normally visible.
00:24:02.080 As noted by space weather and astronomy sources, they only occur during exceptionally strong
00:24:06.460 geomagnetic storms.
00:24:07.880 Because those storms are rare, seeing auroras in Texas remains a once-in-a-lifetime or once-per-decade
00:24:13.820 event for most people in the state.
00:24:16.060 So while such sightings do occasionally happen, they're still rare and noteworthy,
00:24:20.280 especially across a wide part of the state.
00:24:23.220 Your report in the article strengthened the case that 2024 and 2025 is a very active aurora
00:24:26.940 period.
00:24:28.060 This recent event adds to a handful of modern examples of Texas aurora sightings, showing
00:24:32.240 that under the right solar conditions, even far southern states can enjoy the northern lights.
00:24:37.580 There's also concern about the southern atmospheric anomaly.
00:24:41.360 Indeed.
00:24:42.600 Should the public be worried?
00:24:43.720 No.
00:24:44.320 Mainly satellites and spacecraft.
00:24:45.740 But here's the real connection to the auroras.
00:24:48.960 A weaker magnetic field in one region means the overall magnetosphere can be more easily
00:24:53.240 disturbed.
00:24:54.560 The bottom line is it's real, it's growing.
00:24:56.780 And I mentioned, power has been going out, internet's been getting cut, cell phone networks
00:25:00.000 are failing.
00:25:01.040 Experts say this could be caused by extremely rare solar activity and a weakened magnetosphere.
00:25:05.180 And this is me not getting into the pseudoscientific.
00:25:07.680 This is actually the reports that we've gone over so far.
00:25:10.200 When the cell network goes down, they say, we warned you of this.
00:25:12.480 They say, a major solar storm is coming, cell network may be disrupted, power may go out.
00:25:17.240 During this last major storm, when the aurora was visible, power went out at our studio and
00:25:21.040 we have emergency backup.
00:25:23.480 Can extreme solar activity cause all of this?
00:25:25.120 Yes, it can.
00:25:27.040 Would a weakened magnetosphere make the effects worse?
00:25:29.120 Absolutely yes.
00:25:30.540 Are these symptoms consistent with major geomagnetic storm?
00:25:33.540 Yes, they are.
00:25:34.840 Is it dangerous for people?
00:25:35.980 No.
00:25:36.620 But for technology, yes.
00:25:37.820 What you're describing is consistent with a significant geomagnetic storm impacting a
00:25:42.600 modern dependent society.
00:25:44.460 The grid and communication glitches, solar maximum peaking.
00:25:47.820 I said, could the big one happen at any moment?
00:25:49.760 And yes, it could.
00:25:51.440 It doesn't say it's likely.
00:25:53.880 But it could happen suddenly.
00:25:56.020 How likely is it?
00:25:57.300 0.5 to 1% chance per year.
00:26:00.560 That's actually a really high chance, to be completely honest.
00:26:03.860 Are we in a time when risk is higher?
00:26:05.560 Yes, we are in solar maximum.
00:26:09.260 Is there any sign the big one is imminent?
00:26:11.360 No.
00:26:12.080 No signs.
00:26:13.240 But it could happen at any moment.
00:26:16.980 The Carrington event.
00:26:19.540 1859, solar cycle 10.
00:26:21.960 The biggest in recorded history.
00:26:23.660 And we're overdue.
00:26:25.520 So it could happen at any moment.
00:26:27.580 Will it?
00:26:28.660 We don't know for sure.
00:26:30.760 So whether the poles are going to shift, whether the magnetosphere is going to collapse, honestly,
00:26:35.960 we don't know.
00:26:38.060 What we do know is, it feels strange to be getting so many auroras in the United States.
00:26:45.020 Like, obviously, Alaska is.
00:26:46.800 But I mean, like, the lower 48.
00:26:49.360 And I thought it was interesting that Ben said, we're one major aurora event away from
00:26:52.980 people saying, wait a minute.
00:26:55.540 I've been living here my whole life.
00:26:57.600 And this is not normal.
00:26:59.820 But again, not normal doesn't mean imminent chaotic disaster or pole reversal or whatever.
00:27:04.740 But maybe.
00:27:08.620 And so then I ask these questions of, what are the elites preparing for?
00:27:13.200 Maybe it's just civil war.
00:27:15.260 Maybe it's World War III.
00:27:17.200 Maybe it's a disease.
00:27:18.180 Maybe it's literally nothing.
00:27:19.820 Yeah, maybe they're just rich.
00:27:20.600 And they're like, bro, I can afford to spend $200 million on a bunker.
00:27:23.140 I don't care.
00:27:23.680 So they did.
00:27:26.020 Yeah.
00:27:26.420 Or maybe they know something.
00:27:29.660 Maybe Ben's right.
00:27:31.020 The government's going to start dripping out some of this information.
00:27:34.160 And the reason why they would withhold it?
00:27:36.800 Because people would run for the hills.
00:27:39.080 If the president came out today and said, ladies and gentlemen, there is a coming solar
00:27:44.900 event that will send us to the Stone Age, people are going to stop working.
00:27:49.400 And that's bad.
00:27:50.720 If we want to be able to rebuild, if a disaster does happen, we need to build now.
00:27:56.220 Emergency bunkers.
00:27:57.500 We need to safely store solar panels in large amounts, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines,
00:28:07.340 tidal turbines.
00:28:09.100 You guys know about tidal power?
00:28:10.560 When the tide comes in, it spins a turbine, generates electricity.
00:28:14.080 We would need these things prepared and capable of being deployed.
00:28:17.940 But if everybody panics and stops working on these things, you won't be ready.
00:28:22.260 So I wonder, the mass migration pushes, maybe it lines up or maybe it's just, I don't know,
00:28:31.780 to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:28:33.660 If you want to believe this is going to happen, then you can connect whatever dots you want.
00:28:39.320 And that's why I say, I hate to connect dots that don't need to be connected.
00:28:42.420 Maybe, you know, we're in the solar maximum.
00:28:47.580 It happens.
00:28:49.120 The magnetosphere is a little weak now, but it'll improve, whatever.
00:28:51.560 It happens.
00:28:52.640 Mainstream science says, dude, chill, nothing's going to happen.
00:28:55.120 I guess the question is, do you trust the government?
00:28:59.200 And if the answer is yes, then carry on, good sir.
00:29:01.760 And if the answer is no, I suppose the response is, don't be crazy.
00:29:05.480 Live your life like normal.
00:29:07.820 Do your work.
00:29:09.660 Carry on, good sir.
00:29:11.080 Because if it is to come anyway, not a whole lot you can do.
00:29:15.720 But what I can say is, there are simple things in life.
00:29:20.480 West Virginia is great.
00:29:22.080 If a great flood does happen, West Virginia ain't going nowhere.
00:29:24.280 It's elevated, but maybe it probably won't flood anyway, so who cares?
00:29:30.100 There's mountains and good work, and you're close to a bunch of major metros.
00:29:34.200 So the way I see it is, I moved to West Virginia.
00:29:38.580 I got emergency food.
00:29:39.440 I got weapons.
00:29:40.340 Maybe it's Civil War.
00:29:41.080 Maybe it's World War III.
00:29:41.980 Maybe it's a pole shift. 0.56
00:29:42.800 Maybe aliens comes.
00:29:43.720 Maybe Godzilla rises from the ocean.
00:29:46.580 Either way, I'm living my life, my best life.
00:29:50.380 You know, the worst case scenario would be actually an aliens, Godzilla, and a mass flood
00:29:53.700 all at the same time, and zombies.
00:29:55.480 I'm okay.
00:29:56.680 If there really is going to be some kind of catastrophe, the best case scenario is, I'm
00:30:01.040 in a good spot.
00:30:02.440 But if you believe in the craziest of hypotheses, what's the harm in being in a place like West
00:30:11.220 Virginia?
00:30:11.520 You drive to D.C.
00:30:13.480 an hour away.
00:30:14.260 Tons of, there's Winchester and Frederick within, you know, 20, 30 minutes.
00:30:18.360 And if nothing happens and we're all just a bunch of paranoid crackpots, I live in a
00:30:23.880 great place.
00:30:25.280 Great property, good food, lots to do.
00:30:27.820 Where do you live?
00:30:31.680 You know, I wonder.
00:30:32.960 They talk about flooding, climate change, but they buy beachfront properties too.
00:30:38.380 So I'm not saying the elite know everything.
00:30:41.340 I will say there's normalcy bias and optimism bias.
00:30:45.000 And that, a lot of people don't want to believe catastrophes could happen, but they do.
00:30:49.300 We know they do.
00:30:50.500 The question is, will it happen?
00:30:51.760 I don't know.
00:30:52.760 Are you going to bet on it?
00:30:53.540 Maybe not a good bet to make.
00:30:55.220 We'll see.
00:30:56.020 I'm going to wrap it up there, my friend.
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