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Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com)
schwit1 quotes Nature:
Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth's north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet's core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world's geomagnetism experts into a rare move. [T]hey are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet's magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones. The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 -- but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now.
"The error is increasing all the time," says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information.... By early 2018, the World Magnetic Model was in trouble. Researchers from NOAA and the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh had been doing their annual check of how well the model was capturing all the variations in Earth's magnetic field. They realized that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable limit for navigational errors.
Nature's article was updated on January 9th to inform readers that the release of the corrected World Magnetic Model, which should restore accuracy through the end of 2019, has now been postponed from January 15th to January 30th -- "due to the ongoing US government shutdown."
"The error is increasing all the time," says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information.... By early 2018, the World Magnetic Model was in trouble. Researchers from NOAA and the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh had been doing their annual check of how well the model was capturing all the variations in Earth's magnetic field. They realized that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable limit for navigational errors.
Nature's article was updated on January 9th to inform readers that the release of the corrected World Magnetic Model, which should restore accuracy through the end of 2019, has now been postponed from January 15th to January 30th -- "due to the ongoing US government shutdown."
Time, tide, and the magnetic north pole wait for no man.
Declination needs to be changed every year by serious navigators. More often near the poles. This has been true since before any slashdot reader was born.
The magnetic shift is increasing in complexity and rate of change. This has also been known for a very long time.
We are overdue for a pole shift given our current understanding of the magnetosphere. We might be lucky enough to witness multiple north and south poles, followed by a rapid reversal where every magnetic compass in the world will point the wrong way.
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No todo lo que es oro brilla
Get with the program: Either Trump did it or its the globules warming up.
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Of course. It's all the fault of us human beings. We're guilty.
It's a diabolical plan to move the North Pole to Russia so he can steal all those toys! And Trump is in on it!
.... winter's commin. Bet some econazi's will blame the global warming?
Bach says it all.
"Acting up" - as if there's something wrong, when it's simply something that we don't understand. Following a few links, the mass media is already adding even more adjectives, like "going haywire", to make it sound like looming disaster. I'm sure some "science journalist" will now take this out of context and blame it on global warming, or Trump, or whatever...
Meanwhile, the magnetic pole is getting closer to the cartographic pole, which seems like a good thing overall...
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
it's a part of the planet's normal cycle, and there are suggestions that this is what alters the planets rotational axis and thus the geographical poles. If that happens, because the earth is not a perfect sphere but an ellipsoid, the enormous shift in earth masses will cause such meterological and geological changes that entire cities and surface areas could end up below the crust, and reshaping of existing coast lines, and creation of new mountain ranges and oceans.
Subject says it all. And oh, world revolution, yeah!
It's because Nibiru aka PlanetX is nearing. Same thing happened the last time it passed by and it caused the great flood (the Noah's ark one).
Apparently that's why all the world's leaders are visiting Antarctica. Because you can see the planet incoming from there using a telescope.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/in-depth/
what matters is how everyone else measures...
For example, in Sydney there is a 200 metres (700 feet) difference between GPS coordinates configured in GDA (based on global standard WGS 84) and AGD (used for most local maps), which is an unacceptably large error for some applications, such as surveying or site location for scuba diving
see : https://www.icsm.gov.au/datum/what-gda2020
Magnetic navigation is a relic of yesteryear. It only has relevance today in the absence of GPS, which literally everyone has. Nobody uses magnetic compasses anymore.
You don't have to believe me, or accept anything I'm saying. But do ask yourself the following two things:
1. Ask yourself how light has a magnetic field and electric field yet no electron flow. Impossible if magnetism is a consequence of the flow of electrons.
2. Ask yourself how you can have superconductivity (i.e. loss of magnetic field) , yet still with a flow of electricity. If magnetism is from the flow of electrons how does one not happen automatically with the other.
Gravity is Worryingly Holding Things Together and Physicists Don't Know Why.
Life Happened and Biologists Don't Know Why.
Uranus is Strangely Dark and Astronomers are Left Holding Their Nose!
The geomagnetic field is dynamic, always has been. Geologists and Geophysicists are interested but not worried. Seismologist do, however, get worried every time the title's author's mother gets out of bed in the morning.
We are producing too many rare earth magnets. Please think of the children!
"...supposed to last until 2020 -- but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now." Hmm lets see 2020 and today is 2019. Sounds like they almost planned to do it now.
They only released this story to bring attention to the inability to act upon the shifting magnetic pole due to the partial Government shutdown.
US Gov got shut down, so magnetic field is failing, like those SSL certs... soon the earth will implode.
A quick flip would be the end
They're trying to steal the magnetic north pole.
The cause of this is clearly man-made and we need to change our lifestyles to prevent further deviation from what we think is normal. This probably wouldn't have happened if a Democrat were president right now.
Mystery Red in the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulums wander
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Can we reconfigure the power grid into loops and use it to generate power as the magnetic pole flips?
but that would mean the title is mesleading...
Please explain how you can have a magnet - permanent or electro - without metal. I'd love to see a magnet made from sulfur or phosphorus...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
In Soviet Russia ..oh forget it.
driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet's core
Would that possibly be why?
due to the ongoing US government shutdown
Figures, another article that devolves into a political jab.
The fact that the magnetic field is moving is not news. The problem is that it's moving unpredictably.
The two major geomegnetic field models (the World Magnetic Model and the International Geomagnetic Reference Field) have long included time-varying terms. These predict the magnetic field shape (to about 10th order spherical harmonics, not just the pole location!) for the five years between releases.
Both released a model in 2015, which was expected to be good until the next release in 2020. But the field has not done as the 2015 WMM predicted, so they're making a 2019 release
Its a secret soviet weapon which allows them to redirect the flow of stuff inside the earth. "Pootn" has just reactivated the tech.
GPS simulator plus a 100W RF amplifier can bring you any city on the globe onto your GPS receiver in an area of hundreds of miles. Costs about 30K.
Getting as far as it can from the USA.
The change in the magnetic north pole, is also the reason you'll see airports repaint their runway markers from time to time.
We don't need no steenkin' "meters". This is 'murika. inches, feet, yards, miles.
I'm surprised no one is blaming Trump, the liberals, global warming, or minorities for this. They seem to get blamed for everything else.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_magnet
Because we're the biggest badasses in the muthafuckkin world, that's why. At least that's what all the conservatards are always chanting. America fucking first, amirite. Quit your bitching, snowflake.
Bullpussy on both of those comments. Watch a couple youtube videos. Google some shit, ya lazy bastard. You and those asshats both forget that we have cameras that record shit they say during interviews.
What happens when plates rise?
Yea, the north magnetic pole races towards Russia.
But the south magnetic pole has left the Antarctica continent and is in the ocean near Antarctica, and is moving towards Australia.
Greenland is melting, and so are the poles. Lots of regular water, heavy water being dumped into the sea. Water is diamagnetic, and the loss of all this ice may have some effect.
1. How do you explain this in the context of a Flat Earth?
2. What do you think we should do about our archaic age of consent laws?
Although, if I'm being 100% honest, I'm not really interested in their response to the first one, and I tend to start recording just before they tackle the second.
Now fuck off.
The liquid iron theory is so old and so dumb, why is it always repeated? Curie temperature, you know about it?
From what I know the Earth magnetic field reverses it's poles regularly (in geological scale) and all signs indicate it is happening now. The process takes quite long in human life scale and the intermediate state goes through many poles magnetic field, a weak one and even no magnetic field.
It's not a new news, the magnetic anomalies have been observed for a while and it will have impact on our lives, and I hope that more and more elected politicians will be either scientific savvy, or at least will appreciate its importance, because we will need it more then ever.
From what I know the Earth magnetic field reverses it's poles regularly (in geological scale) and all signs indicate it is happening now.
The world operates on AC not DC.
I haven’t updated this, perhaps I should.
Drifting magnetic pole and global temperatures
https://adriankerton.wordpress.com/climate-change-and-the-earths-magnetic-poles-a-possible-connection/
Appreciate any comments, as I couldn’t find a cause.
Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth's north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, [...] "due to the ongoing US government shutdown."
There's your proof. Chuck colluded with Russia.