[tired&retired]

I have been following this subject for about 15 years. There is no question it has merit. Here is a link to a NASA website article I read back in 2003 that pretty much explains the science of it in simple terms. The proof is there. The exact timing of when it takes place is the real question. We are overdue right now as the shift happens about every 300,000 years and the last one was 780,000 years ago.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/29dec_magneticfield.html

Most people don't realize that the sun actually reverses its polarity every peak solar cycle,(11 years) thus causing all the increased activity in sun spots and the coronal mass ejections which effect our weather. Back in 1978 a CME hit North America and knocked out a large sector of the Canadian power grid. The resulting mass influx of charged particles, which also cause the aura borealis, hit the power lines resulting in an overload that knocked out transformers. NASA has been monitoring this carefully for many years with the SOHO satellite.

The evidence is pretty clear just from analyzing the magnetic fields around the Mid Atlantic Ridge. When molten lava forces up between the separating teutonic plates the iron particles align with the magnetic north like a compass needle. When the lava solidifies, it locks the particles into whatever direction they were pointing when they were molten. The research clearly shows a pattern of direction shift of these particles which repeats itself. If you look at all the data from other research, you will see that the rate of change of location of our magnetic north pole has increased significantly in the past 30 years and there is a decrease in the strength of our earth's magnetic field. Just as in the sun, this decrease in polarity strength is a precursor to a shift. I'm not a catastrophist. I'm a realist. But, realizing this does not cause me to worry as, how should I say.....I'm not in control, a higher power is, so why worry about it!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I read Edgar Cayce when I was a kid and that stuff freaked me out.

[Miss Marple]

Thank you for the link. I learned about the periodic reversal of the magnetic poles (and the bands on the sea floor) over 30 years ago, when I was majoring in geology in college.

I don't keep up technically the way I used to when I worked professionally, but as far as I knew that theory of pole reversal has never been refuted.

I find it curious that no one in the pop science world has ever written extensively about it. It seems odd to me that something which has the potential to wreak all sorts of havoc on civiization is simply ignored; maybe it's because one can't blame anyone for the situation.

[Toddsterpatriot]

When molten lava forces up between the separating teutonic plates

How can you tell if the plates are Teutonic? Blond hair and blue eyes?

[pepsionice]

The interesting thing about this...is that this is material that a environmentalist won't touch. It has nothing to do with their "science" or agenda. Yet, it probably has more to explain about our earth...than anything else out there today.