[fishtank]

"A new paper in PNAS, and a Commentary about it by John Tarduno in the same issue of PNAS, provide an up-to-date look at the problem from the secular long-ages viewpoint. Basically, in the first paper, Trindade et al studied stalactites in a South American cave looking for clues to variations in the geomagnetic field. Secular geophysicists have identified a “South Atlantic Anomaly” (SAA) in geomagnetic measurements, “the position of the weakest geomagnetic field on Earth.” They suspected that variations in the SAA might have been recorded in the speleothem data. Here’s what they say about their work. Notice that they acknowledge a “fast decay” the the magnetic field’s strength."

[elpadre]

In that case the bathroom scales should be showing me weighing less, but they are not. I am claiming using the scales as my objective instrument to measure the earth’s magnetic strength. I declare it is getting a wee bit stronger, doncha think?

[Mr. K]

I have a theory

The earths magnetic field comes from the fact that the core rotates at a different rate than the outer crust.

Why would it do that? There is no friction in space to make the outer core slow while the inner core spins faster...

So, what if an asteroid strike causes the outer core to shift, and then it springs back. Then oscillates back and forth until it slows, and eventually stops.

Like a swinging door does.

This would explain the shifting poles every 26,000 years (or so) and also some periods of mass die-offs, when the swinging stops at the top and bottom of each cycle.

There would be nothing to protect us from the solar wind during those times.

I am not sure how ‘elastic’ the molten core is.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

We must take steps to roll back this impending disaster immediately!

These are the ways to accomplish that:

• Raise taxes
• Open the borders to all mankind
• Convert to a Commmunist/Socialist economy and system of governance
• End elections of government officials by the uninformed masses
• Appoint political rulers by UN committees of leading intellectuals and globalists
• Abandon fossil fuel use by the bourgeoisie
• Social Justice must replace outdated notions of personal freedom
• Eliminate the last vestiges of White Privilege
• Eliminate private property
• Concentrate the population in swarming urban centers where they will live in government provided high-rise beehives

/s

[vetvetdoug]

I’m glad someone discovered this. It explains why my pants are still tight yet I’m losing weight.

[Don W]

Earth’s magnetic field reverses shortly after our sun’s position in the galactic equatorial plane changes. We are due for a reversal of the magnetic field due to a recent crossing of said galactic plane.

What’s more likely to flip: the magnetic field of the entire galaxy, or the magnetic field of one tiny little rock that’s tied to a tiny little star on the outskirts of the galaxy?

Before a magnetic field can build up in one direction, the field in the opposite direction has to decay.

This has happened many times before, and will happen many more times until the earth’s core is no longer liquid, the sun stops travelling through the galactic equatorial plane, or the galaxy explodes...

[Libloather]

Will driving around in my SUV help any?

[dhs12345]

A serious question: could this be related to the reduced sun spot activity? Or is it just a coincidence?

[bgill]

It’s the tech effect.

[vikingd00d]

>>The biosphere depends on earth’s magnetic field, but it has been decaying rapidly for at least 1500 years.

Anything that’s been ongoing for 1500 years isn’t “rapid”

[Yaelle]

This is scary! Are all the things going to fall off my fridge?

[SERE_DOC]

"Earth to end tomorrow!

Women and minorities affect most!"

The Wilkow Majority!

[G Larry]

SO!

That white elitist Newton was WRONG!

I'm NOT stuck here on the ground AND soon WILL be able to fly about as I please!

[lightman]

Ping

[mlo]

"...provide an up-to-date look at the problem from the secular long-ages viewpoint."

Otherwise known as "reality".

There is no "secular geophysics". There is only "geophysics". If you are a "religious geophysicist" then you aren't a geophysicist.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Man caused no doubt

[Gritty]

Hey, I've got a great idea!

Let's form a corporation to sell "Magnetic Credits" and charge everybody if they don't decrease their magnetic footprint and save the planet from this looming disaster!

We can give some of the money to under-magnetically served 3rd World Sh!tholes - after deducting a proper "management fee" for ourselves, of course.

It's a WIN/WIN!!

[Openurmind]

This very well could have something to do with the “right handed” Sharks down under.

[\/\/ayne]

[fieldmarshaldj]

*cough*

[Wuli]

We have debated this same idea from the same sources previously. Won’t waste the time going over it again. Someone can look it up from earlier posts using key word or title searches and go through those earlier threads. The sky is not falling.