Catastrophic ping
I’m a little dubious about this methodology.
Kind of like my back flip.
Wanna see it again?
This is not new. Scientists have known about past flips for a long time. Since we can do nothing about it at all, and since we don’t know what the effect will be, should we start worrying now? do we blame Trump or Bush?
Magnetic field flips, now will testify against Trump.
Oh, THAT kind of flip.
I was about to say “I thought we could no longer use that term; “Flip” in polite society. Never mind.
Does that mean this compass is useless?
Well THIS should turn the world upside down.
It’s already been known and is obvious to those who’ve been watching. It goes slow at first, then much faster through the middle 50-60 degrees of the process (some say about a year).
With the deviation, activity is faster. That is, magnetic north, for example, becomes impossible to physically locate. Sub-fields form, with weak spots here and there (dead spot over someplace in South America a few years ago, and a reversal in a sub-field once in a while (happened recently somewhere).
Effects are drought (ozone formation doesn’t keep up), slightly more radical temperature fluctuations, increases in seismicity, volcanism, etc. (field movement follows outer core shift, increased jitter, another cause of drought, etc.).
It’s what some influential folks might really be afraid of while sponsoring much propaganda about anthropomorphic warming and the like. In other words, everyone get busy and think you’ll accomplish something, while it’s really about a few people getting to resources first (markets) and so on.
My thoughts? Wear hats and sleeves, install thermal barriers in houses, get the Republican immigration reform package passed (Democrats refusing),...
And watch the movie, “World War Z.” And run for your lives! ;-D
Seriously, though, build the wall.
We’re just one bit on a platter inside God’s computer, maybe just part of a 1,500 petabyte Windows patch download.
We don’t yet fully appreciate the strength of the coupling between the Sun and the magnetic dynamo of the Earth, IMHO. The coupling isn’t primarily inductive, it’s via solar wind. The torques applied to the magnetopause by solar wind are of course coupled to the magnetic core.
Hopefully we’ll someday have a credible model of how trends in solar wind pressure influence components of the Earth’s magnetic dynamo.
It’s quite possible the “quick flips” in the record of the magnetic field were in fact indicative of something happening in the Sun.
Planet X is getting closer. Earthquakes, Hurricanes,Volcano’s, Dogs and cats living together, all the bad parts of the bible. Thank you Ghostbusters for that line.
Magnetic pole reversals are natural events...
I'm sure "science" will soon tell us that capitalism causes pole reversals.