[Lightfinger]

I don't know if you have read the strange, but also verifiable, issue where the poles switch polarity. Supposedly, things like what is happening to the Gulf Steam and our goofy weather patterns are more explainable as the lead up to that than mythical 'global warming' issues.

[John H K]

I don't think there's anything particularly goofy about weather patterns. The weather is ALWAYS weird.

It's possible over the next thousand years or so that the MAGNETIC poles could switch but there's no known connection with weather to such a flip at all.

[RightWhale]

the strange, but also verifiable, issue where the poles switch polarity

It's an issue for those with magnetic compasses who drive east in the morning to go to work and west in the evening to go home.

[Robert A Cook PE]

More accurately:

The North magnetic pole is now rapidly (dozens/hundreds of miles per year) moving from its old position near the Hudson Bay shore north and over towards Russia.

More importantly, it is decreasing in intensity "rapidly" ...

Previous magnetic pole switches have been shown to happen over a period of very few years (tens of years, not thousands), based on earlier magnetic changes in successive sheets of lava.

So, interesting things are going on all over, right?