[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, there are a couple of errors/differences to be remembered:

From data in magnetic fields in rapidly-cooling lava flows, the transition is actually expected to be very short: perhaps as little as days and weeks.

The "heavens and earth" DON'T CHANGE if/when the magnetic field flips: Only the direction of the compass, and of course, ANYTHING (birds, snails, mammals, butterflies) that relies on their internal compasses for navigation gets affected. But the stars remain exactly where they were, and the earth's actual rotation remains the same.

Climate changes? Maybe, maybe not. No real evidence either way?

Does magnetic flips relate to current global warming? Don't know. Nobody is looking either!

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Now: Earth's magnetic field is "rapidly" lowering in magnitude compared to earlier data.

Now: Earth's "north magnetic pole" is VERY RAPIDLY moving away from the Hudson bay and is now heading north-northwest towards Siberia at about 150-300 miles per year.

Earth's south magnetic pole is NOT changing as much, nor in a comparable direction.

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But it is all Bush's fault.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping. I was going to post this.

[neverdem]

Now: Earth's "north magnetic pole" is VERY RAPIDLY moving away from the Hudson bay and is now heading north-northwest towards Siberia at about 150-300 miles per year.

Actually it's a capitalist conspiracy. Bush is just a dupe of the Carlyle Group.