My friend Ben Davidson isn't warning about some way off space age scenario in the future. He is warning about changes that are already happening. Earth’s magnetic field has weakened. The magnetic poles are moving. The South Atlantic Anomaly is expanding. Solar storms have already damaged satellites, disrupted communications and pushed electrical systems toward failure. Davidson believes these are not rare and isolated events...they are pieces of a much bigger cycle building toward a dangerous window between 2040 and 2060. He is talking about Earth’s magnetic protection becoming weaker while the Sun remains capable of throwing enormous amounts of charged material directly at us. We have built an entire civilization on satellites, GPS, banking networks, electrical grids, communications and computers...and all of it depends on a stable technological environment. Take away the power for long enough and everything halts .. like completely! People seem to pass by Davidson because scenario scares the bejesus out of them. Its way way easier to call him a nutter than to admit that our civilization is fragile as hell and almost completely unprepared for a severe geomagnetic event. He has spent years connecting the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field and the planet’s history of catastrophe while everyone else studies each piece separately. His exact mechanism is a little controversial, but the crazy danger he is pointing toward is very very real. Laugh at him all you want...I'm not...but when the shield is weakening and the Sun is capable of shutting down the world we built, ignoring the warning is stupidity. Follow him @SunWeatherMan