Diagram showing solid-body rotation of the Earth with respect to a stationary spin axis due to true polar wander. This diagram is greatly exaggerated. According to Doubrovine and his team, Earth's solid outer layers have been slowly rotating at a rate of 0.2 degrees every million years. Diagram via Wikimedia Commons.and more germane to this list:
earth as a tippe top
Charles Hapgood talked about this back in the 50’s and 60’s - “Earth’s Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science” and “Paths of the Pole”. He argued that the weight of the polar ice caps could cause sudden, catastrophic polar shifts.
If everyone in the western hemisphere pointed their car north and the eastern south and they all punched it at the exact same time could we rectify this? Or more importantly could we move my house a little further south? The winters can be kinda cold.
