Canada: Our North loses the Pole ~~ moving toward Siberia

Edmonton Journal ^ | Friday, June 17, 2005 | Nathan VanderKlippe

[brooklyn dave]

Can someone please those Canadians about the virtues of sharing.

[Constitution Day]

Bush's Fault.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ran with fact box "Why It Matters", which has been appendedto this story.

I am not finding this item.

[A CA Guy]

Has to be Bush's fault, had votes been recounted another ten thousand times in 2000 this couldn't have happened.

[wyattearp]

Does this mean that I need to reset the declination adjustment on my watch?

[WildHorseCrash]

What's a "Canada"?

[Abathar]

"But Canada prides itself on being a northern nation -- it's part of that nebulous identity we spend so much time thinking about. Does losing the pole mean losing a piece of ourselves? Will we be launched into the throes of another identity crisis, now that the world's compasses no longer point to us?" Who writes this stuff? I guess they really do feel inferior to other people.

[azhenfud]

magnetic "jerks"

So Clintonesque

[cripplecreek]

I'm assuming that means the south magnetic pole is also on the move?

[RegulatorCountry]

"I'm assuming that means the south magnetic pole is also on the move?'

The Equator as well? Weather implications... just what we need, something else that the "climate change" zealots can demagogue. What socialist "solution" do you suppose will be trotted out for this one?

[ElkGroveDan]

I fear what this is going to do to the Canadians' paper-thin sense of self worth and their collective national insecurity.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I've been thinking my house was rotating clockwise the last few years, this explains it.

[Bogey78O]

A magnetic shift proably has more of an effect on the planet's climate than man made carbon waste.

[Kenny500c]

Something needs to be done NOW!

This is at least as serious as global warming.

We need to set up a vast bureaucracy and study this ad infinitum and shut down industry which some junk scientists agree may be causing this crisis.

A global tax on magnets is in order - for the children, of course.

[Mikey_1962]

So like, COME BACK EH?

We have beer here in the Great White North eh?

[cripplecreek]

The equator is an imaginary line that circles the globe center. It won't go anywhere.

[Jasper]

Magnetic pole shift bump

Art Bell, please pick up the red courtesy phone ;>)

/jasper

[RegulatorCountry]

"A magnetic shift proably has more of an effect on the planet's climate than man made carbon waste."

That's what I was thinking. But, a pole shift doesn't mean a change in axis, does it? Longitude, latitude, GPS devices, geosyncronous satellites... it can't be the case, we'd have a major mess on our hands. I guess I'm commenting on something that I don't have a strong understanding of, because I can't wrap my mind around magnetic north being greatly at odds with true north.

[RegulatorCountry]

"The equator is an imaginary line that circles the globe center. It won't go anywhere."

In a pole shift, I'm not certain that that imaginary line would mean anything anymore, hence the comment.