Aren’t we due for a magnetic reversal in 2012?
That is the date of the end of the Mayan calendar.
There’s been some stuff on the web, and not the wacko sites, that mention a weakening of the polar magnetic fields which is believed a prelude to a full reversal.As for 2012, I don’t speak Mayan so I can’t say, but weirdly, I do remember as a kid reading a comic strip in the SF Examiner that had a story line of the consequences of a mag shift. That was in 56. I remember cause I was visiting my aunt in Albany Cal that summer and I thought the Examiner’s comics were more interesting than those in my NYC papers. The things that stick in your mind.