This is based on very sound science. There is no public policy implications since we cannot do anything about it except perhaps come up with ways to protect sensitive equipment and infrastructure, ala Y2K. No change in human behavior will alter the earth's magnetic field.
Does not make any difference. The liberals will blame it on Bush.
I'm glad there are at least a few serious posts about this article. I'm not sure who are worse -- the environmental radicals who use junk science to "prove" that earth would be a paradise if only mankind were extinct, or the flat earthers who think that all science is junk science and a conspiracy against the purity of our bodily fluids. It will be an interesting problem as this will be the first time the magnetic field shifted when humans had technology, as someone here noted. I'm more concerned with what the increased radiation will do to our electronics than I am concerned with what the increased radiation will do for cancer -- am I a geek or what?