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Rapid Drift of Magnetic North Explained
Earth Sky ^ | May 18, 2020 | Deborah Byrd

Posted on 05/19/2020 12:50:10 PM PDT by yoe

The location of Earth’s north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning,” according to scientists.

You probably know that a compass doesn’t point to true north. Earth’s geographic north pole – and magnetic north pole – were first recognized as two different places in 1831. Until the early 1990s, the magnetic North Pole was known to lie some 1,000 miles south of true north, in Canada. Yet, as scientists realized, the location of magnetic north was not fixed. Magnetic north was drifting at a rate of up to about 9 miles (15 km) a year. Since the 1990s, however, the drift of Earth’s magnetic north pole has turned into “more of a sprint,” scientists say. Its present speed is about 30 to nearly 40 miles a year (50-60 km a year) toward Siberia. And now – using satellite measurements – scientists in Europe have helped confirm a theory as to why Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting so rapidly.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; magneticpole; potsdamgravitypotato
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(Inuit elders tell NASA Earth axis shifted)....Have no idea if this has anything to do with the Earth's axis....(Yes, a Solar Minimum Is Coming. No, It's Not Going to Mess Up The World)

Worth keeping in a file....wait for the confusion to start...opinions from the "experts" then the politicians will try to tax whatever the "experts" say....'an so it goes.

1 posted on 05/19/2020 12:50:10 PM PDT by yoe
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Canada’s blob is colluding with Siberia’s.


2 posted on 05/19/2020 12:52:42 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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3 posted on 05/19/2020 12:53:03 PM PDT by z3n
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Its present speed is about 30 to nearly 40 miles a year (50-60 km a year) toward Siberia.

Those commie bastages!


4 posted on 05/19/2020 12:53:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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East is Least West is Best,from my Compass Rose days back 4 GPS


5 posted on 05/19/2020 12:54:30 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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The North Pole is sad about Global Warming and dead Polar Bears.
It is sinking southward in despair.


6 posted on 05/19/2020 12:55:49 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Bell Bouy II

True virgins make dull company at weddings.


7 posted on 05/19/2020 1:02:38 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: yoe

he who controls kamchatka, rules the world...

old risk proverb.


8 posted on 05/19/2020 1:02:42 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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he who controls kamchatka, rules the world...

old risk proverb.


9 posted on 05/19/2020 1:02:42 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Bell Bouy II

Dead men vote twice at elections.


10 posted on 05/19/2020 1:03:57 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: teeman8r

That was always my strategy and I always won.

Eventually, no one wanted to pay RISK with me anymore.

/remember Irkutsk


11 posted on 05/19/2020 1:10:01 PM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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My son Vanya was born in Petropvlovsk-Kamchatskiy!

To full-blooded Koryak parents.

Born for greatness!


12 posted on 05/19/2020 1:10:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Could it be any clearer?)
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Not sure I agree with that one. Never saw anyone hold Asia.


13 posted on 05/19/2020 1:10:25 PM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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I forget how many miles are in a degree, but if you’re using an old-fashioned magnetic compass you’ll have to start allowing for the drift.


14 posted on 05/19/2020 1:10:27 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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So I guess we might be seeing if this polar shift will have some affect on the Yellowstone caldera


15 posted on 05/19/2020 1:10:41 PM PDT by drypowder
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he who controls kamchatka, rules the world...

"Kamchatka is game to you?"


16 posted on 05/19/2020 1:12:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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https://trunord.com/

Compensated compass


17 posted on 05/19/2020 1:14:04 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (I'm essential!)
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The location of Earth’s north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning,” according to scientists.

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Jeezee Loueezee, Canada. Can’t you do anything right?

Letting your magnetic blob get beat by the Siberian blob? No one even lives in Siberia! How can the Siberian team even get any players?


18 posted on 05/19/2020 1:14:08 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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i never saw that one...

thanks


19 posted on 05/19/2020 1:19:24 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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Is the idea to build up in Asia because few players want to contest it, and then move on to an easier to defend area?


20 posted on 05/19/2020 1:19:25 PM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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