[ex-Texan]

I would not dismiss shifting magnetic fields so quickly. The "magnetic" North Pole has shifted dramatically in the past 40 years. Now it is not situated on the North Pole but is a few miles inside the Canadian border. Ask any Boy Scout leader.

Read more about Space Weather, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and other stuff Here .

Hold on to your hat. We may be in for a wild ride in the next ten years. Just my humble opinion. Flame away.

[Dog Gone]

[Tandem]

"I would not dismiss shifting magnetic fields so quickly. The "magnetic" North Pole has shifted dramatically in the past 40 years. Now it is not situated on the North Pole but is a few miles inside the Canadian border. Ask any Boy Scout leader."

I hate to burst your bubble, but the magnetic North Pole has NEVER been situated at the geographic North Pole. Also, it hasn't moved in the last few centuries and probably not for eons.

[megatherium]

I confess I don't know what effect the magnetic fields have on global climate, I figured not much. Interesting web site, even if some of it doesn't convince me. (I doubt Mars can cause earthquakes, its gravitational effect on Earth is much much weaker than that of the Sun or Moon.)

One article suggests a solar output increase is causing global warming. I remember reading that solar variability can account for maybe 0.4 of a degree of temperature change, but the alleged present 1 degree increase is said to be greater than what solar can account for.

But Mother Nature can definitely throw us some wicked curve balls. The volcano Tambora produced an eruption in 1815 that caused the famous "year without a summer" in 1816, when a snowstorm hit New England in June.