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Good. Everybody will die and we don't have to worry about global warming.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening, and that could lead to a flip in the planet's poles making compasses point south instead of north for the first time in almost a million years, say scientists.
I thought these things were supposed to happen with Y2K.

Experts at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco say the field has declined 10 percent in the last 150 years, and suggest a reversal could lead to problems in navigation and a jump in cancer rates with a diminished ozone layer.
There's that ozone layer thing again...what is it with these "the sky is falling" liberals...it's always the ozone layer...is this some obsession with words containing a "z"?

"Is a reversal coming? Yeah, it's coming for sure – sometime,'' said geologist Robert Coe of the University of California-Santa Cruz, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Oh God, not the dreaded 'reversal'?

Physicists say the average period between pole flips is about 200,000 years, and the last one is believed to have taken place 780,000 years ago, making the next swap long overdue.
now...just a minute...who was at the last pole flip...you know that one that took place 780,000 years ago...and did they use a Hewlett-Packard test unit then to figure this out? I think that was long before the compass was even invented. Did this article come out of "Science Fiction" comic books, or what?

According to Harvard University's Jeremy Bloxham, the field could disappear completely within the next 2,000 years if the rate of decline remains constant, but he's not certain if the poles will actually reverse.
Hey, I'll just hang out and wait for the next one...I got nothing to do for the next 2,000 years anyway.

"Chances are this is going to die out," he said, reports the San Mateo County Times. "Reversals are pretty rare."
Oh, I see...claim a spectacular headline, then end the story by saying it probably won't happen. I think the word "rare" is an understatement with a [arbitrary] occurance rate of 200,000 years.

If a flip did take place, it would be over the course of several thousand years, and scientists say it would likely reduce the protective ozone layer, cause glitches in satellites and electronic products, and create a flurry of navigational anomalies as compasses would "cease to be a simple means of navigation," according to Bloxham.
Same crap we heard about Y2K.

The consequences would be the same if a reversal takes place or the field continues to diminish, with one researcher estimating an additional 100,000 cancer cases annually as people would be subject to more of the sun's harmful rays.
Hey, life's a gamble...you pays yo' dime and you takes yo' chances. But, some liberal will figure out how to wrangle a few million out of Uncle Sam to "study" what can be done....follow the money.

Well, the North Mag Pole is moving rapidly towards Russia (several hundred miles per year at current rate), and are declining ....

So, sure, it's likely.

But the South isn't moving as far in the other direction. So, how will that difference affect things?