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Ron Johnson: “We can protect ourselves against something like the…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson Questioning Witnesses at HSGAC Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 14:07

… if all of our furnaces and water pumps and so on go out because of the personal computer type things that are used in them, that's a bad day. But We can protect ourselves against something like the Carrington effect, the 1921 effect, for a relatively low cost. And again, it's something that has a 10 to 12% probability of happening every decade. And we escaped something massive by a couple days in 2012. I mean, am I stating that correctly? (14:07–14:13)

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Asserts that protection against geomagnetic storms can be achieved at a low cost.

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