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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Earth's magnetic poles ‘about to flip’ killing MILLIONS leaving parts ‘uninhabitable'
2018-02-01
*sigh* This was going to be the panic after comtrails precipitating clouds to reduce the sunlight reaching the surface, but global warming had a scarier emotional hook. It looks like someone thinks we’ve passed peak climate change, and decided to dust off this old chestnut.
[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK]
Scientists have estimated the magnetic field that protects the Earth and is key to life has weakened by about 15% in the past 200 years.
The field has flipped many times in the Earth's history. A flip is several thousand years overdue, however, we are talking geologic time not human time. I wouldn't loose any sleep over it unless you still have a magnetic compass or are a migratory bird.
As long as we have satellite-guided GPS, we won’t need need magnetic compasses to navigate, right? And migratory birds must have handled pole flips somehow — those flying descendants of dinosaurs have been around a long time.
And they have suggested this could be a sign the Earth’s magnetic poles could be about to completely flip.

Our planet is a molten core that generates a huge magnetic field capable of defending it from solar storms coming the Sun.

This field extends thousands of miles into space and has a key role in every part of life on Earth, and our technology such as global communications and power networks.

Experts have warned of the danger in a new book called "The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It".
Posted by:Fred

#18  The only polar shift is the ice from the north pole to the south pole.
Posted by: newc   2018-02-01 16:17  

#17  The Daily Star--doom and gloom merchants.

Meanwhile, the Dems will be claiming this is racist, dividing, xenophobic, islamaphobic, homophobic, anti-transgender, anti-womyn, anti-Hispanic, anti-immigration and DACA, environment-destroying...and it's all Trump's and the Pubs' fault.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-02-01 10:43  

#16  That's a great link Woodrow. Thanks.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-02-01 10:43  

#15  Don't forget that the Earth, and the solar system itself is circling the center of the galaxy at several hundred miles-per-hour. Such a reckless speed! We are bound to hit something!

We need a Galactic Rotational Speed Tax immediately!

And of course if you don't support this settled science then... you just want people to die you racist!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-02-01 10:20  

#14  Magnetic poles flip, women and minorities hit hardest.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-02-01 10:19  

#13  The history of tracking pole shift began I think in the late 1700's by British ships noting compass changes in the south Atlantic. Then someone discovered some snails who's shells grow clockwise to counterclockwise depending on pole shift.

And when the field flips it also tends to become very weak and so does Earth's protection from solar radiation.

At one point the South Pole was over Africa. And the planet is still standing. Semirelated. Mars magnetic field shut off billions of years ago.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-02-01 10:02  

#12  So media types are falling back on their Prime Directive - scare the living shit out of its readers. Plus ça change ...
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-01 08:53  

#11  But we are ALL doomed. None is going to get out of this world alive.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-01 08:43  

#10  its just propaganda for book
Posted by: Greack Thraish2673   2018-02-01 06:00  

#9  Only less capitalism and more socialism can stop the magnetic flip. If you do not believe me then you hate science and are a racist.
Posted by: airandee   2018-02-01 04:11  

#8   I loved polywater.

Polywater is all fun and games - until it turns into ice-nine.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-02-01 02:44  

#7  The Magnetic North Pole is heading North-Northwest at approximately 55 km per year... Next Stop Siberia? Has to be Climate Change, right, right???
Posted by: magpie   2018-02-01 02:35  

#6  It looks like someone thinks we’ve passed peak climate change, and decided to dust off this old chestnut

Me, I'm waiting for the return of polywater - I loved polywater.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-02-01 02:29  

#5  It looks like someone thinks we’ve passed peak climate change, and decided to dust off this old chestnut.

It only matters if the OWG folks figure out a way to tax it.
Posted by: gorb   2018-02-01 02:25  

#4  Gaia is angry with Trump?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-02-01 02:17  

#3  I love these stories. "We're all doomed! Doooooomed!"
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-02-01 01:59  

#2  Whoever wrote this is scientifically illiterate. It is like letting Jim Carey and Jenny McCarthy write an article of immunology. Unless this is the equivalent of the Weekly World News or National Enquirer "Bat Boy Alien" reports, they should be ashamed.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-02-01 00:50  

#1  Our planet is a molten core that generates a huge magnetic field

So, like, won't the magnets pull the satellites down?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-02-01 00:39  

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