[Secret Agent Man]

Bush’s fault. Next....

[Raineygoodyear]

There are other links besides just the Mayan calendar that portend catastrophe. The sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years on the same day, which marks the winter solstice.

Some say that will disrupt the energy flow to Earth, or that the high rate of sunspots or sun flares that NASA has predicted for 2012 could affect Earth magnetic fields.”

[mnehring]

bump for later

[To Hell With Poverty]

catastrophe ping

[GOPJ]

Let me guess - it’s the US’s fault - we have to destroy our economy to solve the problem, and “scientists” on the left will get major grant money to study it...

[bluedressman]

the obvious cause of this magnetic shift is due to flux from man made internal combustion engines. hybrids have no effect, however.

[Incorrigible]

D O O M E D

[I see my hands]

To: Chris Matthews' Thigh

Maybe it wasn't Obama after all.

[Brilliant]

Maybe this is what’s causing global warming.

[SoftballMominVA]

For those of us non science folks, could you be so kind as to put this phenomenon in plain English?

Let’s assume this all happened within the next year - what would it mean to the average every day person on the street?

[A message]

I'm not worried Pelosi will save the planet using her mutant botox powers to channel the magnetic field through her botox enhanced cheek bones and out her botox enhanced forehead thereby restoring balance to the planet's magnetic field.

[centurion316]

Obama is promising change. Now we know that he means it - South will be North and North will be South - change you can believe in.

[Domestic Church]

I guess if the poles flip, we might get a whopper of an emp.

[vetvetdoug]

I do know that magnetic North is different than what it was in the 1860’s. Reading old maps I know that I have to correct it to the new Magnetic North when using a compass.

[cookcounty]

It's because the US uses 25% of the world's MRI's but only has 3% of the world's magnetism.

Speaking of 25%, when is somebody going to debunk the "US uses 25% of the world's oil.....a figure that spouted by every anti-US politician for the last 40 years. With China and India and others rapidly expanding usage and the US flat, isn't it, well, odd that the figure remains unchanged and utterly stable?

[RobinOfKingston]

I sure hope Al can help with this, now that the climate appears to be cooling a little. Maybe he can figure out how to trade magnetic credits ... or ... something.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

As the earth’s core cools the magnetic field will weaken. This will cause disassociation of earth’s most important greenhouse gas, water, and will result in the cooling of the atmosphere and widespread climate change.

In 20 or 30 million years this could get to be a real problem.

Good thing there is plenty of water in the outer solar system.

(BTW, is it just me or is FR running slooooowww today?)

[Bosco]

I hope the Magnetic Change Lobby doesn't come for my...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I can just see it now: AMC - Anthropogenic Magnetic Change.

Somebody notify Algore that he can get in on the ground floor of another environmental scam.

[Waco]

2012 again. Hoo Boo, oh hoo boo. (see, somethings different already )