Earth's magnetic field

[The Librarian]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-true-that-the-stren/

It is talking about the strength of the magnetic field showing a declining trend, but also skirts around the issue of what happens if the magnetic field flips.  Basically, no one knows if/when it will happen, and what/how it will affect us.  Some scientists have speculated that previous mass extinctions happened with the zero magnetic field that occurs before a flip.  But all this is conjecture.

 

WORLDWIDE NETWORK of geomagnetic observatories monitors changes in Earth's magnetic field.

At most places there has been a general decrease in the strength over the past century, typically ten percent or so. No one can say with any certainty whether this represents a fluctuation or whether it is a decrease which will eventually lead to a reversal. 

And then you have this headline from the illustrious Daily Star UK

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/678511/Apocalypse-End-of-the-World-Magnetic-Poles-Flip-Scientists-Uninhabitable-Solar-Storm-Field

 

Earth's magnetic poles ‘about to flip’ killing MILLIONS leaving parts ‘uninhabitable'

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

2 hours ago, The Librarian said:

 

 

2 hours ago, The Librarian said:

Basically, no one knows if/when it will happen, and what/how it will affect us.  Some scientists have speculated that previous mass extinctions happened with the zero magnetic field that occurs before a flip.  But all this is conjecture.

This is exactly right  ---No one knows --- but I have a super strong magnet glued to the side of the military grade green laser on top of my 5 shot revolver, and can in an instant clip a flashlight to the side.  It takes 30 pounds of pull and a twisting motion to get the flashlight off.

I keep it in my right front pocket .... and it does not harm me a bit .... although it does wipe the magnetic strips off my debit card, from time to time.... and sometimes when I pass a metal filing cabinet, or walking past a car, my trousers will jump out and attach themselves to the metal, and I have to stop and disengage.

This is several BILLION times more powerful than the Earth's magnetic field, and affects flesh not at all.

I seriously doubt when the magnetic poles flip, those wearing steel toed shoes are going to be rotated instantly 180 degrees.

It flips slowly, and has been doing so for at least hundreds of years at various locations all over the Earth ... which screws up compasses (compai?) and before GPS was a navigation problem in the South Atlantic Ocean.

It WILL flip ... and has so thousands if not millions of times in the past, as sedimentary fossil evidence indicates.

It used to be said that if you did not read the newspapers, you were uninformed.

In today's environment, if you DO read the newspapers ... you are MISinformed.

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

!!!!! OF COURSE THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD IS GETTING WEAKER !!!!!

WHEN YOU MAKE A U-TURN IN YOUR CAR .... YOU SLOW DOWN FIRST !!!