Study: Earth's magnetic field is changing

MSNBC ^ | August 18th, 2008

[ApplegateRanch]

Anent Global Climate Change: Is this a missing piece in the theory of cosmic/solar radiation affecting cloud formation & global temperature changes?

I know that the anthropogenic-only crowd deny the theory on grounds that actual solar output changes are too small in their book to account for it; but if a weakened field ia allowing more of radiation through....

[ApplegateRanch]

Now the group is evenly split between strong and weak.

So the consensus is, "your guess is as good as mine." How can it be Modern Science without Consensus? ;-)

[SoftballMominVA]

If we lose the internet - how will we know what has happened?

This is a much greater problem than I thought - no FR? Woah!

[Jack of all Trades]

The air temperature in my back yard has risen 30° in the past four hours. At this rate, I’m planning on smelting lead over this weekend.

But wait... large extrapolations based on short term data don’t work well for nonlinear, time variant systems do they?

[Pontiac]

This is a much greater problem than I thought - no FR? Woah!

Well look on the bright side; there won’t be any DU.

[Pontiac]

Very good. My compliments.

[Pontiac]

I’m banking on two big meteors impacting the earth, one in Moscow and one in Teheran; God don’t like ugly.

I would not care for the collateral damage, but why leave out Pyongyang and Mecca.

[Jack of all Trades]

Thanks, infrequent sniping seems to be my specialty.

[SuziQ]

Paging Dr. Maunder...

*snort* I hoping that the next one will be called the "Al Gore Minimum", just to point up that fool's idiocy.

[mathurine]

Good points; maybe throw in San Francisco to appease equal opportunity advocates.

[uglybiker]

This must have something to do with the moons of Meepzorp, or a doobie.

[Raineygoodyear]

Thanks for those links! They are great info...

[Raineygoodyear]

Today it is better, yesterday it was Snail Mail...

[MrB]

Good point.

Global warming is a large extrapolation into the future.
Evolution is a large extrapolation into the past.

[Towed_Jumper]

“If the poles flip, gravity will come from a different direction and we'll have to begin walking on our hands.”

/chuckle/...as it turns out I'm currently reading Charles Hapgood's “The Path of the Poles”, which is a reprint of his original work from the 1960’s called: “Earth's Shifting Crust”. Hapgood's theory is that in Earth's history the lithosphere has in fact shifted many times, moving the points of the North and South poles around with it.

...interesting book, though a bit technical. Nevertheless, maybe I should start practicing walking on my hands!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’ve read that there is plenty of geologic evidence of the magnetic pole moving about.

[Towed_Jumper]

“I’ve read that there is plenty of geologic evidence of the magnetic pole moving about.”

I'm not a Geologist by training so some of Hapgood's material goes over my head. However, the evidence that he has documented from his own, and other sources, is extensive. (Having to do with the various orientations of iron minerals in rocks that have been magnetized to point at different polar locations, etc).

I'm learning a lot.