The article fails to mention other impacts such as damage to oil and gas pipelines, loss of tracking of large numbers of satellites, single event upsets in the

The article fails to mention other impacts such as damage to oil and gas pipelines, loss of tracking of large numbers of satellites, single event upsets in the same, and exposures of aircrew and travellers to higher levels of ionising radiation. It is certainly something to worry about. This testimony to the US senate by K Tobiska has more on the topic: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY18/20180426/108217/HHRG-115-SY18-Wstate-TobiskaW-20180426.pdf http://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY18/20180426/108217/HHRG-...