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“Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip” – Scientific American
IceAgeNow.info ^ | 30SEP2014 | Robert Felix

Posted on 10/01/2014 1:38:33 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

“A geomagnetic reversal may happen sooner than expected,” says this article in Scientific American.

(Excerpt) Read more at iceagenow.info ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; climatechange; flip; geomagneticreversal; magnetic; magnetism; northpole; poleshift; reversal; science
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Climate change!


61 posted on 10/01/2014 2:50:25 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Cool! I always wanted to live in the Southern hemisphere.

Now we can be "down under!"

-PJ

62 posted on 10/01/2014 2:51:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That depends if Ebola, Walkers or some Illegal doesn’t get us first.


63 posted on 10/01/2014 2:55:14 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Justa
"Umm, the earth’s crust does not flip."

You're confusing the outer iron core with the earth's crust. The outer core is below the crust.

"Nothing changes in association to magnetic the pole flip."

As the magnetic field moves around more quickly, the molten outer core moves around more quickly under the crust. The magnetic field weakens and provides less protection from rays. Unusual weather patterns develop. Volcanism and seismicity also increase.

Global warming is not the problem and is not caused by humans. The global warming propaganda is no more than a distraction by those who want to control markets. The extended solar minimum and magnetic field deviation are problems.


64 posted on 10/01/2014 2:56:11 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Justa

The magnetic field, as it is, exists because of the outer core (mostly iron and nickel).


65 posted on 10/01/2014 2:59:28 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

No, but all compasses will be recalled. If this happens, the N needle on a compass will point S.

No sarcasm.


66 posted on 10/01/2014 3:02:26 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Does this mean I still have to time keep my Hair and Nail appointment?


67 posted on 10/01/2014 3:02:39 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: bkepley

Actually, there probably is a connection...

The Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening....as it does prior to a pole shift. A weaker magnetic field deflects less energy from the sun, meaning more of the sun’s energy, in all its’ forms, makes it to the Earth’s atmosphere.

How this actually manifests itself, who knows....but it would be unwise to conclude that there is no effect.


68 posted on 10/01/2014 3:02:46 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Is this why we’re seeing a spike in volcanic eruptions?


69 posted on 10/01/2014 3:02:55 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: x1stcav

I remember killer bees as a child. I was so scared. My fear factor has decreased every decade since.


70 posted on 10/01/2014 3:04:18 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The pole is moving about 45 miles per year.

Poor Santa. How does he ever keep up?

71 posted on 10/01/2014 3:07:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: AZLiberty
If this happens, the N needle on a compass will point S.

OMG, it's Y2K all over again.

72 posted on 10/01/2014 3:09:04 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: All

All kidding aside, this could have a significant effect on both weather and health. If weather patterns are related to magnetic field patterns, then the period of weakening and reversal would lead to weaker jet streams and more blocking, which might produce some disruptions to global agriculture. It would not be very predictable, more like an increased frequency of unusual events. The weaker magnetic field would also be less efficient at blocking ultra-violet and other radiation, increasing cancer rates.

It needs to be understood that this won’t just happen overnight. The magnetic field has been weakening steadily over the past century or more, and will continue to do so if we are in fact approaching a reversal. There would not be one year with the current polarity followed by a second year with the opposite polarity. There would be a period of hundreds and perhaps thousands of years of erratic polarity with weak secondary poles showing up and drifting around, some at rather low latitudes, in a transitional phase.

What remains to be seen is whether all of this would be a nuisance or a severe impact, and basically, we just don’t know. I don’t see much chance of it reaching those levels in this century, more like 2500-3000 AD for the reversal process to set in and possibly longer to complete.

According to current scientific understanding, governments can do nothing to prevent this, so the preparation would need to be in terms of potential responses. Even there, when only some of the impacts can even be guessed at, what response can there be? We are stuck with this happening in our future and will probably find that the impacts are so spread out over time that it will be a process of continual gradual adjustment (not all of it successful, possibly).


73 posted on 10/01/2014 3:49:55 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for the restoration of a strong and free USA (with the current magnetic field))
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To: Kartographer

There you go, problem solved.


74 posted on 10/01/2014 3:53:50 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Kozak

Pole reversals do happen. Between 100k and 1 million years on average.
Last one was about 750 k ago.

Yes, they leave a clear record of magnetic orientation in the basalt sea floor. As the basalt forms from lava, it takes on the polarity at that time.


75 posted on 10/01/2014 4:04:31 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Oh no...let’s blame the Tea Party!!!! We need to tax somebody since we can’t have this happen!!


76 posted on 10/01/2014 4:08:37 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: x1stcav

Just goofing around. A lot of people have died since then (even though not from those threats) so probably in some people’s minds these prophecies “came true.”


77 posted on 10/01/2014 4:15:56 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

We all need to move to the other side of the planet.


78 posted on 10/01/2014 4:24:47 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: Kartographer

With our luck the current equator will be over the south pole.


79 posted on 10/01/2014 4:24:48 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG ...)
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To: Peter ODonnell

“The weaker magnetic field would also be less efficient at blocking ultra-violet and other radiation, increasing cancer rates.”

No. The magnetic field has nothing to do with blocking photons, like UV light. It steers particles (cosmic rays) away from most of the earth towards the poles, resulting in the auroras. A weakening magnetic field will affect health, since energetic cosmic rays can damage DNA. They also can damage electronics. This is why people are so interested in large coronal mass ejections (X flares) and the damage they might do to the electrical grid.


80 posted on 10/01/2014 4:48:05 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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