According to this NASA article on the 2012 storm [1], the problem is that CMEs induce currents in the Earth's magnetosphere - the same phenomenon that causes th

According to this NASA article on the 2012 storm [1], the problem is that CMEs induce currents in the Earth's magnetosphere - the same phenomenon that causes the auroras. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/ https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/2...