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To: NYer
Magnetic north, which is the place where compass needles actually point, is near but not exactly in the same place as the geographic North Pole. Right now, magnetic north is close to Canada's Ellesmere Island.

The new 'clarion call' for global warming?

2 posted on 12/28/2009 4:22:45 PM PST by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
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Will I be the first with:

“Obviously George Bush’s Fault”

???


4 posted on 12/28/2009 4:24:33 PM PST by KeepUSfree (WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
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To: NYer

We need a magnetic Czar pronto!


31 posted on 12/28/2009 4:50:57 PM PST by Wontsubmit
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Researchers at the Magnetism Research Unit at East Anglia University have found that 700 AM radio stations in the US broadcasting Rush Limbaugh simultaneously are causing the magnetic north pole to shift toward Russia. The data used in the study has been misplaced but no doubt this is what is occurring. Pleas are being made to get stations to stop the radio wave pollution or mitigate it by switching to Alan Colmes. Peer reviewed papers will be presented to the upcoming UN Conference on polar migration.


32 posted on 12/28/2009 4:52:48 PM PST by excopconservative
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Kind of, but not in the way you might think. In the dinosaur days at OU School of Geology and Geophysics, changes in the Earth’s magnetic field were closely related to changes in eustatic (global) sea level. The rock record would show a sequence of a terrestrial, then nearshore, then offshore environment, which was interpreted as showing a change in sea level (IIRC, because these same cycles were matched up all over the world for that specific stratigraphic section).

So, it seems to support what we understood, and what universities taught everywhere, that changes in global sea level were cause by a number of different forces, none manmade, and had gone on so throughout time.

This is harpoon in the side of anthropogenic warming.


33 posted on 12/28/2009 5:00:37 PM PST by job
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Why isn’t Al Gore all over this? Its a great opportunity for him to fear monger and proposed trillions in new taxes which will make him rich(er). And lets not even mention a 2nd Nobel prize.....


45 posted on 12/28/2009 5:32:38 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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That is what the compass rose is for on charts, you have to adjust magnetic north to true north when navigating. My wife and I took Charting and Navigating courses through the Coast Guard, they were free and excellent, we learned dead reckoning and all kinds of very cool stuff, the course was difficult but a great experience.


77 posted on 12/29/2009 6:54:53 AM PST by Scythian
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