https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1

Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move.

On 15 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.

 

Wasn't there something a few years ago about this? That the GPS that aircraft use had to be reset because of the pole shift? There have been many pole shifts over the time of the Earth, that can be proven in geology.

 

Wasn't there something a few years ago about this? That the GPS that aircraft use had to be reset because of the pole shift? There have been many pole shifts over the time of the Earth, that can be proven in geology.

But it's never moved this fast! Must be AMPS (Anthropogenic Magnetic Pole Shift).

 

I blame global warming. Increased global temperature = less viscous molten iron core = easier to slosh about = faster movement of pole.

 

I blame global warming. Increased global temperature = less viscous molten iron core = easier to slosh about = faster movement of pole.

I blame the Canadian Maple Syrup Mafia for selling the pole to Russia. It's making a bee-line to Siberia.

 

But it's never moved this fast! Must be AMPS (Anthropogenic Magnetic Pole Shift).

No!

It's Trump's fault. All of it.

 

It's that damn wall.

 

What's the Pole doing wandering around Canada, for heaven's sake? Why isn't he in Poland where he belongs?

 

Not only is it wandering, it is also weakening. The planet is due for a flip and 99.9% of all scientist believe we have begun the newest flip. Since there is a scientific consensus, it must truly be happening.

 

It's that damn wall.

Which one?
Qin Shi Huang's that didn't keep out the Mongol hoards?

Hadran's wall that didn't protect the Romans from the Celtic tribes?

Maginot's that didn't keep out the Germans?

Or did you mean the Siegfried or Westwall that didn't keep out the Germans either?

Oh well, the 5th time is the charm

 

But it's never moved this fast! Must be AMPS (Anthropogenic Magnetic Pole Shift).

Your right, it moved even faster.

 

Your right, it moved even faster.

Yep. Faster is not THIS fast. So it's never moved THIS fast before.

 

Yep. Faster is not THIS fast. So it's never moved THIS fast before.

Since we have only been able to measure magnetic field strength for about 150 years and the earth has been around 5 billion years or so, we have nothing to make this observation against. We don't know if this shift is fast, slow or totally normal. If the shift is fast, the benefit to life on earth is huge, since the less we have to go without the mag field's protection from the sun's charged particles, the better for life overall. Fortunately, the sun is also moving into one of its 400 year "sleep" periods, where sunspot activity will be at a minimum.

 

Oh no, not a shift in the magnetic poles!. If it flips over we will have to rewrite all the textbooks and remark all the compasses. All critters who rely on magnetic navigation will go in the wrong direction.
We're doomed, doomed, I tell you.
At least one good thing will come out of it all, we will no longer be the"land down under". Hey, and you won't be "North America" and no more northern lights. It will be southern lights.

 

Oh no, not a shift in the magnetic poles!. If it flips over we will have to rewrite all the textbooks and remark all the compasses. All critters who rely on magnetic navigation will go in the wrong direction.
We're doomed, doomed, I tell you.
At least one good thing will come out of it all, we will no longer be the"land down under". Hey, and you won't be "North America" and no more northern lights. It will be southern lights.

Simple solution: switch to the left hand rule. Done.

 

Yep. Faster is not THIS fast. So it's never moved THIS fast before.

Again it was faster. Fast enough to register in the magnetic signature of rocks. And there was years ago the theory that it was what caused Pangaea to break up into the world as we know it now. And geology says that wasn't the first time it happened.

 

Again it was faster. Fast enough to register in the magnetic signature of rocks. And there was years ago the theory that it was what caused Pangaea to break up into the world as we know it now. And geology says that wasn't the first time it happened.

So what? Faster is not THIS fast.

You are missing the smart-ass point (note the tenor of and emoticon in Post #3). If it is moving at 50 km/year now and it moved at 500 km/year in the past, THIS fast is 50 km/year and 500 km/year is not equal to THIS fast since 500 km/year is not 50 km/year. If you then say that it moved at 50 km/year at a certain time in the past I can just come back and say that now it is moving at 50.001234 km/year and back then it moved at 50.002398 km/year, as so it still wasn't THIS fast.

 

And your missing the point that those numbers are nothing compared to the speed it moved a few times in the distant past. Enough to split and move continents. The speed it's happening now doesn't come close to comparing.

 

And your missing the point that those numbers are nothing compared to the speed it moved a few times in the distant past. Enough to split and move continents. The speed it's happening now doesn't come close to comparing.

I agree completely. So what? Again -- smart-ass response made to get a smile. Nothing more. Don't read into it any more than is there.

 

Again -- smart-ass response made to get a smile

Yours or mine?