SOLAR STORM IS FORECAST IN 2012.

NASA experts have again warned of potential danger to Earth the explosion of a single large solar storm in 2012, generated more than 150 million miles away, on the surface of the Sun An extreme solar activity intense in the coming years are expected increasing levels, this would cause an unprecedented disaster.

Our energy and communications systems would be seriously damaged by application of the solar plasma and our comfortable Western life system, which relies more than ever on technology, would collapse like a house of cards. Not for the first time NASA made this warning. Two years ago, released a study that predicted even millions of deaths in 2012 if the sun discharged its "perfect storm."

Researchers, policy makers and American politicians these days have gathered in Washington to sharpen the focus on critical infrastructure protection. The ultimate goal is to improve the human capacity to prepare, mitigate and respond to weather potentially devastating space.

"I think we're in a new era in which space weather can be so influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather," says Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division. 

In 2012 solar storm 20 times worse than the "Katrina" 

"The sun is waking from a deep sleep and in the coming years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms, "explains the expert. The National Academy of Sciences of the United States (NAS) published the problem a couple of years ago a major study funded by the U.S. space agency. It reflected a grim picture. The twenty-first century civilization is based on high-tech systems. But these smart energy networks, the GPS navigation, air traffic control or communications systems can be eliminated by intense sun tantrum. A phenomenon of this kind could cause economic damages twenty times stronger than Hurricane Katrina. 

Nevertheless, there is a response. NASA believes that much of the damage can be mitigated if known as accurately as possible the arrival of a storm, with actions, such as satellites or disconnecting protean transformers. To this end, the space agency probes, including STEREO, ACE and SDO provide up to the minute information about what is happening on the Sun SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) is the latest addition to the fleet. Launched in February, is able to photograph the solar active regions with unprecedented spectral resolution. Now, scientists can observe flares in great detail.