The Earth’s poles may be about to flip – and the consequences could be ‘dire’

15 thoughts on “The Earth’s poles may be about to flip – and the consequences could be ‘dire’”

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  Petri Maatta February 18, 2018 at 7:17 pm

  Now that's just weird information. Petri, https://dreammaker.co.uk

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  saeedm2005 February 9, 2018 at 1:33 am

  It's so terrible that we hear this ...

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  Robert Hamilton January 31, 2018 at 9:15 pm

  Yep. Except it takes 7000 years for a flip to happen. So you will have time to update your will before DOOM.

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  Bk Kean January 31, 2018 at 8:17 pm

  Dear Starlightengram, nothing in your post contains even a gram of fact. The Earth is actually moving away from the Sun at a rate of about 1.5 cm per year. Less than an inch. Cornell University is the source for this info. Learn to Google before you post weird hypotheses. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/83-is-the-distance-from-the-earth-to-the-sun-changing-advanced

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  Thomas Rossi January 31, 2018 at 7:57 pm

  @starlightengram: This debunks your ridiculous claim that the earth-sun distance has shrunk 6 million miles since the 1940s: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/83-is-the-distance-from-the-earth-to-the-sun. In fact the earth's orbit is growing ever-so-slightly due to tidal forces and the tiny but continuous loss of mass by the sun. The rest of your screed is even loonier. Are you on drugs? If not you should start now.

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  Greg M Simmons January 31, 2018 at 5:57 pm

  Last time the Poles flipped, we ended up,with the Solidarity movement. Not a bad outcome. I'd suggest we water down their Vodka. That might postpone the worst of it.

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  starlightengram January 31, 2018 at 5:30 pm

  The distance of the earth to the sun has diminished since the 1940s by about 6 million miles (according to NASA reports). Year by year the earth moves closer and closer. The amount of earth's heat reservoir has been diminished commensurate with the loss of materials to nuclear reactors, nuclear bombs, and space exploration. The gravitational field of the earth which depends upon mass has diminished commensurate with the loss of matter. The gravitation serves to compress atmosphere against expansion for a given heat load. An expanded atmosphere permits more light to travel through. Mammoth Mountain Caldera in California is gushing about 500 tons of CO2 gas every day from huge gas pockets beneath the surface. The gravitational change on earth has disturbed the solar laminations in solar latitudes which coincide/correspond to the position of earth in orbit around the sun. This gives rise to increased numbers and severity of solar events: magnetic storms, coronal mass ejections, solar flares, etc. which may impact the earth. When energy of mass is liberated through a nuclear reaction it is converted to its wave aspect (instead of particle aspect) and loses its capacity to provide inertia, gravitation, and heat sink. After the big bang, supersaturated energy decompressed and cooled to form energy crystals which we call "matter." The crystalline energy, matter, which survived the blast generated in a thermodynamic equililbrium with the total heat which formed and exceeded (escaped) matter. Everything is energy - either trapped as crystal or liberated as wave forms (which do not react well to gravitational fields until they are at the magnitude of black holes.) If a solar flare (Ed Dames' "Kill Shot") does not destroy the planet, I estimate on a linear scale, there remain about 300 to 500 years from present time before the descent (orbital decay) to the sun causes the temperatures and other thermal reactions to enter a range that makes the planet uninhabitable. But towards the end of trajectory, the rate of descent may increase exponentially, and the time remaining will be foreshortened considerably to time zero. Continuing nuclear devices and space exploration cost the planet more and more heat sink and centrifugal force. Discontinuing all nuclear devices and space exploration may only forestall the rate of descent, and give the planet more time to exist. The solar dust from the sun does not repair for the losses. The dust falls on an absolute deficit. The planet has lost its place in the mass-entropy schedule. The solar system ration for the heat value to total mass has been irreparably ruined.

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  inthe80s January 31, 2018 at 5:11 pm

  We have to do something about this, immediately - I can't afford to buy all new magnets.

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  Lucas January 31, 2018 at 4:04 pm

  Meh, Ive been hearing this since the 70s

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  M Brian Palmer January 31, 2018 at 4:02 pm

  This is 10 year old news. We can't control this and should focus on the ones we can, i.e. that we are consuming the planet towards collapse of global civilization an the undoing of whatever progress we've accrued.

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  Thomas Ward January 31, 2018 at 3:33 pm

  When you report about science, you should actually learn the science first. There is no evidence that flipping the poles will do any harm to anything or anybody. This would then fall into the area of scare tactics for the author.

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  JP Highwater January 31, 2018 at 3:05 pm

  Actually, the average time for a pole is about 700,000 years or so. The problem is not north or south according to magnets. The problem arises as the sift takes place. The current theory is that this shift occurs over time (1 year to several hundred) and that shift leaves us vulnerable to increased solar radiation as the magnetic field doesn't protect us. So, switching back is 700,000 or so years away.

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  Ed Gruberman January 31, 2018 at 2:23 pm

  Can't man stop this if we spend enough money? We seem to think we can stop the warming...

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  akarba January 31, 2018 at 2:14 pm

  So, any real detail (i.e. what new Poles might be, expected time to switch back like a day or 200 years?)

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  Sheldon Kennedy January 31, 2018 at 2:10 pm

  Maybe it would be a good idea to live underground!