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The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field (esa.int)
Europe's Swarm constellation of satellites have documented bigger-than-expected changes that have been occurring in the Earth's magnetic field. Earlier this year SpaceWeather.com reported that the data show clearly that "the field has weakened by about 3.5% at high latitudes over North America, while it has strengthened about 2% over Asia. The region where the field is at its weakest -- the South Atlantic Anomaly -- has moved steadily westward and weakened further by about 2%. These changes have occurred over the relatively brief period between 1999 and mid-2016."
Science writer Robert Zimmerman reports: It was already known that the field has weakened globally by about 10% since the 19th century. These changes appear to be part of that generally weakening. Some scientists have proposed that this is the beginning of an overall flip of the magnetic field's polarity, something that happens on average about every 300,000 years and last occurred 780,000 years ago. At the moment, however, we have no idea if this theory is correct.
Science writer Robert Zimmerman reports: It was already known that the field has weakened globally by about 10% since the 19th century. These changes appear to be part of that generally weakening. Some scientists have proposed that this is the beginning of an overall flip of the magnetic field's polarity, something that happens on average about every 300,000 years and last occurred 780,000 years ago. At the moment, however, we have no idea if this theory is correct.
Is this nothing to worry about or a portent of doom?
The sun doesn't send its best particles. They bring in ionisation, they bring in cancer, they destroy our power grid. And some, I assume, are good particles.
We need to build a wall to protect ourselves from these particles, and we need to build it quick.
that is equally as important as co2, but climate change pushers put all the burden on man.
climate will ALWAY keep changing, we're crazy to think we would have the exact same weather all the time if man wasn't pumping co2 into the atmosphere. i'm no climate change denier, i just know ther is way more to this than the gov't and most gov't funded scientists pushing the man made global warming agenda would lead you to believe. follow the $. how many businesses were made just to be able to sell carbon credits? how many scientists would still be employed in these studies if they were saying that the climate would change even if we never pumped a molecule of co2 into the atmosphere? why has global warming morphed into climate change?
because the average global temperature according to satellites has not changed in the last 15 years. all they can say now is climate change is caused by man. were we alive to change the climate since the earth was formed? the climate always changes, from ice ages to warm and prosperous periods like tday, countless times since the age of the dinosaurs. explain how our man made co2 did that.
http://www.viewzone.com/magnetic.weather.html
so weather climate change may not be from my truck afterall? who could have guessed they are guessing also..
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Is this the reason why celebrities are building underground shelters all over the world?
It's entertaining to imagine that when / if the field flips in our lifetime electrons as we know them cease to function, and become instead an extension of the mind.
May your Magick be strong, lest you be devoured by the hoard!
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
Layman question here: are there any studies which tried (or could) correlate those magnetic shifts with long-term changes in volcanic activity around the world?
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I know, you're already modding me down as "Off Topic" or "Over-Rated." What people are trying to sell me as a Man Made Global Warming is nothing more than a change in our Magnetic Field that's letting things in that it shouldn't be. Want proof? Want Evidence? Look no further than the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset hosted by NOAA. The Pan Evaporation rate explains it all. If you map out the average delta from over time, you'll find no argument for any significant global warming AT ALL from 1950 to 2005. After 2005 something goes a bit queer. Negative deltas start to vanish during Solar Minimum. Cosmic Rays in excess? Then with the last solar cycle, the delta follows it. Why would the latest solar cycle show in the evaporation rate, but not prior ones? Solar storms leaking through the Earths EM? But, no, data-driven dissent of Global Warming is entirely unacceptable.
Is Earht's future. A wasteland. In a few 1000 years it will look as if there was never any life on this third rock from the sun. And what of your gods then?
Oh, Thank the heavens the almighty Donald is here to make the magnetic field great again. God is looking out for me a once again to save us from the rapture of the lst eight years.
Hallelujah!
... because humans have mined ores that are classified as diamagnetic paramagnetic ferromagnetic ferrimagnetic antiferromagnetic and moved them from their natural distributions into localized concentrations.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Of course the same people who deny climate change is a real thing will also deny that impending magnetic field reversal is not a real thing either, right up to the point where all our satellites die, the power grid shorts out and blows up, every electronic device on the planet quits working, and every complex lifeform on the planet gets cancer. Then they'll retreat into their deep underground bunkers with their 20 year supply of everything and not be heard from again, while the world eats itself.
This will be blamed on Republicans. Before you dismiss this idea, remember that any geological or astronomical effect is normally interpreted according to the dominant religion of any society- you can easily cherry pick right wing preachers who claim that any given storm or earthquake is meant to punish some various sins. So while the religious folks will react in a manner you mostly expect (and have seen), I'll argue that the left wing will broadly and somehow interpret this event as related to something that it couldn't possibly be, and that it will be blame on bourgeois consumption, reckless use of some resource ("the iron mining did this!", "how oil deposits stabilized the magnetic field for nearly a million years- and the USA fucked it up in less than three hundred!"), or something else that has increased by orders of magnitude since the industrial revolution, and that no one today thinks has any link to such a thing. But once it is politicized, it will be processed in the same manner as all politicized topics.
The aliens' ship is in a geostationary orbit over the south Atlantic, powered by the earth's magnetic field. Obviously.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Once Trump takes over, we'll have the strongest, most powerful magnetic field in history right here in 'murica! It's all part of his day 1 plan for making America Great Again!
I thought our magnetic field was caused by our molten iron core. Which is not something to undergo rapid changes.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
How ironic - everyone was so worried about anthropogenic climate change, and then the Earth's magnetic field disappeared for three years before reappearing with the poles swapped, and killed everyone in the process...a shame we never started Lunar or Martian colonies....
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
FFS, CO2 doesn't cause heat itself. It traps sunlight's heating of the earth, making it warmer. So, yes, they DO know about that hot burny thing that some people who get outside claim to see.
"climate will ALWAY keep changing"
What? So it changes magically, for no reason? Or is one reason it changes that CO2 changes, causing climate change. And burning foosil fuels is anthropogenic CO2. Resulting in AGW.
"i'm no climate change denier"
No, you are, just in denial (or pretending for public consumption. No adult human could achieve your level of wrong without denying the evidence.
"how many businesses were made just to be able to sell carbon credits"
So cash changes he laws of the universe, but man can't change the climate?!?!? Bullshit.
"because the average global temperature according to satellites has not changed in the last 15 years" Lie. It is measuring a column of atmosphere, and AGW would cause warming lower down and cooling higher up, so satellite trends would be lower than the 1.7C/century the IPCC says. It shows 1.1C/century.
"were we alive to change the climate since the earth was formed"
We don't have to.
"the climate always changes, from ice ages to warm and prosperous periods like tday, countless times since the age of the dinosaurs."
You weren't there. How the hell do you know?
"explain how our man made co2 did that."
http://ipcc.ch
Short version, it didn't before the industrial age, but CO2 from natural sources could do it just as they do it when we produce it. But there aren't dinosaurs today, so why do you insist that we had to cause it then to cause it now?
Oh, and Fragnet, they talk about natural variation in there lots. But they don't talk about it with AGW for the same reason as they don't talk about agriculture in the age of the dinosaurs.
Great, now my alien religion friends will say. "The white supremacy aliens that are here to help us transition into a higher dimension are initiating the process!" If you're not familiar, the idea of an impending magnetic flip is central to that belief system. That is if the lizard people don't interfere. I am done arguing this, it is tiring
Not intended to be funny, but I count on any comments being.
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Oh no! Let's ban fossil fuels and replace them with inefficient more expensive technologies that were made with energy from fossil fuels. Anyone who says otherwise is a troll who needs to be modded down.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Lets see what Dr Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA has to say about it.
turn off your computer and step away from the drugs.
Wul, you know the north pole...the magnetic north is actually the south pole. And the south pole is actually the north pole. I mean, it depends on if you're speaking of the north magnetic pole...the north magnetic pole of the Earth is actually the south...or the north-seeking pole, or which is actually the south pole of the Earth. So you have to look at it that way, too, thar.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
Deal with it
MAKE MAGNETICS GREAT AGAIN
What if all the climate change is merely a climate shift due to the pole movement ?
Just a thought
You mean Beub Dyleuhn?
Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Genesis Flood
http://www.icr.org/article/rev...
It might be the Russians !!
Or the Chinese !
Its usually them on here ...
We can't petition the world to stop changing, but we can conduct geoengineering experiments and take as much change into rational hands as possible.
Yes, yes I do, and I want them to develop systems that swing both ways in the case where if something goes too far one way, we can easily push it back the other. With that in place it can't be worse than the situation where the climate and weather is left to nonrational influences.
If geoengineering is gone at wholeheartedly, we will eventually be at a place where the world will for the most part be at the temperatures we want with rain and snowfall only occuring when we want, and hurricanes and tornadoes occurring not at all. We may even put a dent in the earthquake situation.
Quick, we need a tax on cheap Chinese neodymium magnets!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Because you didn't look?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
At this point, that is still in the realms of science fiction. And if you can change the climate to such an extent, any mistake could cause absolutely catestrophic effects that would be completely irresponsible. Maybe one day we will have to knowledge to manipulate the environment like this, but that won't be until long after the time that we need to do something about climate change.
Well not with an attitude like that!
Surely the weaker magnetic field will result in more mutations and therefore more aggressive evolution during this period. More cancer, more deaths too.
could we be killing the planet, perhaps with our 4G, hologram surveillance, and directed energy weaponry?
by planet I mean everything we're effecting that's fudging up earths magnetic field.
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Spaghetti-O's
let me say
A) it will flip between 50-150 years from now
B) it will hten stay gone for about 500-1000 years ( as evidenced from volcanic rock studies back millions of years )
C) if your outside you better be covered up( the same group that studied rocks said 10-18 million will die in that 1K years time due to it
D) there will be a slight bleed off of earths atmosphere each time this happens
Have gnu, will travel.