Not any of the physics in that first quote made any sense.
So I googled the quote. That got me the full name; Alexia Demetria. It also got me a whole lot of crank and fringe sites reposting the piece with no obvious original source.
Searching for Alexia Demetria got me... a whole lot of crank and fringe sites reposting the piece with no obvious original source.
I think I've traced it back to
Solar Storm Warning, a flat out 2012 conspiracy site, complete with "Marshall Law" link ranting about FEMA concentration camps.
I still can't find out who this supposed physicist is. There is someone by that name on Twitter but from the content I'm assuming not the same person...
As for the physics;
Solar flares are getting stronger as we move out of the quiet period, but I wouldn't expect a major risk to the ground. Large flares can potentially be a radiation risk for satellites and astronauts, but our forecasts can normally mitigate those problems. The main results are expected to be delayed spacewalks and maybe some satellite downtime during the worst storms. That is, they are a genuine threat, but not a massive one.
At it's heart this scaremongering seems to be a rebirth (if such things ever truly die) of the
photon belt nonsense. That article is great in that it has a section on criticism from
ufologists which mostly amount to 'you just pulled this out of your arse, didn't you?' The actual scientific explanation of why it isn't true is just a clarification of what certain words mean and why they don't mean what people seem to think they mean. Particularly 'photon'. The whole thing sounds like bad sci-fi technobable with less plausibility.