Earth's magnetic pole shifting; Alaska may lose northern lights

Rapid City Journal ^ | 8 Dec 05

[rellimpank]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting from North America at such a clip that it could end up in Siberia in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday.

Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's fading magnetic field will collapse or that the magnetic poles will flip is remote. But the shift could mean that Alaska may no longer be able to see the high-altitude shimmering displays of colorful lights called the aurora borealis, or northern lights.

Scientists have long known that magnetic poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places. But exactly

[Bernard Marx]

I want my money back for that expensive compass!!

[oolatec]

Bush's fault.

[Last Dakotan]

poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places

Sounds like a bad reality show in Gdansk.

Is this your fault?

[Teacher317]

What a shame if it does happen. On my flight to Beijing this autumn we flew right alongside an aurora. It was amazing.

[onedoug]

It's happened before in human history.

[Ostlandr]

It's actually not the pole itself that's moving-
just Santa's workshop.
Tired of Canada's socialist taxes, and faced with a worker shortage due to the extremely low birth rate among elves, Santa has decided to move his entire workshop complex to the Amur River region of Siberia.
The new facility near the Chinese border will allow his operation to take advantage of both cheap Chinese labor and Russian raw materials.
In an elaborate financial transaction, Santa's holding company (Claus LLC) will be dissolving, with the Canadian government gauranteeing the elves' pensions.
As elves do not die of old age, this is expected to impact the Canadian treasury for the foreseeable future.

[kabar]

And it takes several thousand years for the earth's magnetic poles to reverse. We are entering that transitional phase according to some scientists. How it effects the weather is pure speculation.

There seems to be some correlation between magnetic reversals and the onset of an ice age. Link between ice ages and magnetic reversals

[traumer]

and I may be loosing my marbles....

[beaver fever]

Yeah I've read that.

But I think it's going to be safe to go to the beach in my lifetime and many lifetimes after I'm gone.

The earth does what it does. We are just renters.

[razorback-bert]

Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming,Global Warming!


Did I mention that is caused by Global Warming!

[kabar]

If the author is correct, we could be in an Ice Age in 20 years, right on the 11,000 year cycle. He makes a compelling case in his book, which I have read over a year ago.

Not by Fire but by Ice THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!"

[tubebender]

The police chief here in Eureka drives an Aurora. I don't remember what year it is...

[beaver fever]

The 11,000 year cycle is based on two examples.

Even if scientists are right there is nothing we can do about it. We just live here we don't control things.

An Ice Age in twenty years? That would be an onset of an Ice Age.

It would be many generations before it would become a crisis. Right now Mt Kilimanjaro is loosing it's ice cap.

The problem is that we think we can reverse a problem when in fact we may not have the power to make any difference no matter what we do.

[Sundog]

Good Link.

Thanks.

[msf92497]

Oh,damn. My head will soon be melting.

Sh*t.

Well, whatever. I mean it's all OK anyway, right?

Crap. It's definitely NOT OK.

[Crim]

It's also a matter of prophecy...

Edgar Casey predicted this about 50 years ago...AND the almost over night climate change in the EU...

This will cause increased weather patterns, normal (but unrecorded weather extremes), an increase in seismic and volcanic activity ,

ALL part of a NORMAL cycle on earth....but a cycle with such a long frequency...it is as of yet unrecorded by "modern" science...

This does NOT signal the "end of the earth"....merely the end of the earth "as we know it"....not the same thing at all...

If you live in a coastal area close to sea level, a volcanic area, or an area prone to earth quakes...

You might give a thought to relocating in the next couple of years....sometime before 2012 if the myans where right...

And buy a Gun.....you'll need it...

[Ostlandr]

What problem? Humans have survived every previous ice age just fine. Not in large numbers, perhaps, but we survive.
Temperatures will go up and down, the ice sheets will retreat and advance, sea levels will rise and fall.
As a result, I predict serious volatility in the global real estate market over the next ten thousand years.

[Crim]

*puts on tin foil hat*

hmmm...wouldnt that be about the same time Atlantis was wiped out?

If it ever existed?

[Termite_Commander]

So the Mayan calender's end in 2012 is supposed to line up with a polar shift or something? Interesting.

If it's true, I'm astonished that the Mayans would be capable of predicting these sorts of things so far in advance. Or perhaps the secret to predicting this is actually quite simple, and is hiding in plain sight.

Who knows? (not me)

[Chena]

Alaska may lose northern lights?!! Oh, say it ain't so! What will we look forward to during the long winter months? I shall take myself to the window right now and thank God for the northern lights. :)