NYT: COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD ACCELERATES (Via Drudge)

Drudge Report ^ | 7/12/04 | Drudge

[mkj6080]

The collapse of the earth's magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago, the NY TIMES is planning to report on Page Ones Tuesday.

Science reporter Bill Broad has filed a report, according to newsroom sources, which explores how: 'The field's strength has waned 10 percent to 15 percent so far and this deterioration has accelerated of late, increasing debate over whether it portends a reversal of the lines of magnetic force that normally envelop the earth."

Broad explains: "During a reversal, the main field weakens, almost vanishes, and then reappears with opposite polarity. Afterward, compass needles that normally point north would point south, and during the thousands of years of transition much in the heavens and Earth would go askew."

Broad claims: "A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid."

Developing...

[Hot Tabasco]

The collapse of the earth's magnetic field

Obviously hasn't yet impacted on the laws of gravity since white men still can't jump.....

[piasa]

That's called a "Third World Toilet".

No, that would be Paris. An equatorial toilet is just called "stagnant pit."

[norton]

"The cool thing is one would see the Northern Lights in lower latitudes...Unhhh, wouldn't they then be called the Southern Lights?"

Lower Latitude Lights.
Or...LLL!

Having a dramatic-traumatic-thematic impact on the average earth-person's psyche and without any known cure.
Soon to be [OK, millions of years..] subject of the Earth aND (near) Solar system (ENDS) Center for Disease Control studies and huge piles of Federation [salute here] money to find a cure...
Developing.

[NCjim]

Isn't the magnetic field what holds the sky up? I thought so...

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

[chainsaw]

The collapse of the earth's magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago,

I suppose it would seem like that at the NYT, when actually it's just they readership sinking.

[theDentist]

Thataway....

[JediForce]

DAMN! I AM OUT OF TINFOIL...WHAT AM I GOING TO MAKE A HAT OUT OF NOW ! :-)

[norton]

"Good thing we have GPS, but can we miniaturize it in time to save the birds and animals."

But first!
We need to expand the public school system to include the birds and animals (sic) so they'll be able to program TIVO and GPS....Tomorrows's rallying cry for the NEA.

[Assuming they can figure out why 'birds and animals' needs a 'sic']

[chainsaw]

How about the New world - Port-a-Potty. Yours isn't the only one that just sits there and looks back at you.

[microgood]

This would not change. The coriolus effect is not caused by the magnetic field, but by the rotation of the earth.

Whew. Thanks for the info.

[Jim_Curtis]

Great. A new end-is-near scenario for Drudge to chew his fingernails over.

[eldoradude]

Posted back in December...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1039487/posts

[Centurion2000]

There's nothing we can't ignore if we really put our minds to it. Now the first thing we're gonna have to do is buy all new globes.

[ThirdMate]

Calling all compass adjusters!

[Damagro]

It's Bush's fault, and will profit Haliburton

[carlo3b]

So, even the poles are joining the flip-flops.

Is Kerry Polish? Geeeze..I thought he was French!

[BobS]

You're right.

Just rotate the Earth -90deg and all those crazy Muslim countries will be at the north pole and a whole bunch of American men will marry Brazilian cuties:):)

[Hellmouth]

Will it help the Red Sox win the World Series?

[WestTexasWend]

I need to know...1) any chance I will weigh less if this happens? and 2) who decides which animals can adopt?

[Damagro]

"President Bush has a deal with the Egyptian Sun god Ra"


Ra is a subsidiary of Halibuton isn't it?