Posted on 07/12/2004 4:05:31 PM PDT by 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...
Doomed.
We're doomed, pong
You mean Drudge is responsible... figures.
How many Page Ones does the Times have?
Adopt? I've heard of animal rights but this is rediculous. Who's representing the critters in those proceedings?
This could be like Y2k. Sell everyone new hardware that is grid-flop complient. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
I could never get used to toilets flushing counterclockwise.
Six. It increase their chance of getting something correct.
Not even funny. Anyway AlGore CLAIMS to have invented the Internet, and Reagan is blamed for homelessness.
There have been countless reversals in history and none have been correlated with an extinction event.
Just an FYI.
hurt astronauts and satellites i.e., raise near-earth radiation--an adaptable problem
widen atmospheric ozone holes...probably,
send polar auroras flashing to the equator,...whoa, colors...cool!
and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid... so vote Democratic? They can't do anything about it either--it's bigger than both of us!
The real scandal here is all of the field agents who warned about the minute .00001% chance of the Earth's Magnetic Field collapsing and who were summarily ignored by the Bush/Haliburton admin. This demands a "bi-partisan" Commission.
All Boy Scouts will need new compasses.
What did Bush know and when did he know it?
This is bad news for the Atkins diet people.
And your pet could be adopted by gay animals. Think about it. Eeeewww!
They will go flying across the room and stick to the stove.
Yawn....more NYTimes Chicken Little hype-drivel, probably be filled with enviro-whackos opining that this issue is being ignored & underfunded by the Big Oil Lovin' Bush crowd.
DOOMED
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