Perhaps if we all drive our SUV's to the North Pole we can affect the impending doom...

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The Weakening Of Earth's Magnetic Field Has Greatly Accelerated

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Earth’s magnetic field is getting significantly weaker, the magnetic north pole is shifting at an accelerating pace, and scientists readily admit that a sudden pole shift could potentially cause “trillions of dollars” in damage. Today, most of us take the protection provided by Earth’s magnetic field completely for granted. It is essentially a colossal force field which surrounds our planet and makes life possible. And even with such protection, a giant solar storm could still potentially hit our planet and completely fry our power grid. But as our magnetic field continues to get weaker and weaker, even much smaller solar storms will have the potential to be cataclysmic. And once the magnetic field gets weak enough, we will be facing much bigger problems. As you will see below, if enough solar radiation starts reaching our planet none of us will survive.

Previously, scientists had told us that the magnetic field was weakening by about 5 percent every 100 years.

But now we are being told that data collected from the SWARM satellite indicate that the rate of decay is now 5 percent per decade…

It’s well established that in modern times, the axial dipole component of Earth’s main magnetic field is decreasing by approximately 5% per century. Recently, scientists using the SWARM satellite announced that their data indicate a decay rate ten times faster, or 5% per decade.

In case you didn’t quite get that, 5 percent per decade is 10 times faster than 5 percent per century.

If the rate of decay continues at this pace, or if it speeds up even more, we could be looking at a mass extinction event that is beyond what most people would dare to imagine.

As more solar radiation reaches Earth, we would expect to see a rise in cancer rates, and this is something that even National Geographic has acknowledged…

However, if the magnetic field gets substantially weaker and stays that way for an appreciable amount of time Earth will be less protected from the oodles of high-energy particles that are constantly flying around in space. This means that everything on the planet will be exposed to higher levels of radiation, which over time could produce an increase in diseases like cancer, as well as harm delicate spacecraft and power grids on Earth.

Of course we are already seeing this. Cancer rates have been rising all over the world, and if you live in the United States there is a one in three chance that you will get cancer in your lifetime.

But as the magnetic field continues to weaken, things will get worse.

A lot worse.

The weaker the magnetic field gets, the amount of solar radiation that will reach us will rise, and eventually it would get so bad that the entire human race would be in jeopardy. The following comes from Futurism…

Radiation and cosmic rays are a real concern for NASA, especially when it comes to long-term spaceflight. Astronauts on a mission to Mars could undergo up to 1000 times the exposure to radiation and cosmic rays that they would get on Earth. If Earth’s magnetic field disappeared, the entire human race – and all of life, in fact – would be in serious danger. Cosmic rays would bombard our bodies and could even damage our DNA, increasing worldwide risk of cancer and other illnesses. The flashes of light visible when we close our eyes would be the least of our problems.

And even if some of us found a way to survive underground for a while, we still wouldn’t be able to survive because solar winds would strip away our planet’s atmosphere and oceans…

Without Earth’s magnetic field, solar winds — streams of electrically charged particles that flow from the sun — would strip away the planet’s atmosphere and oceans. As such, Earth’s magnetic field helped to make life on the planet possible, researchers have said.

So could such a scenario actually happen?

Well, some scientists are saying that our magnetic field “could be gone in as little as 500 years”, but they are telling us not to worry because Earth’s magnetic poles will “flip” and things will eventually return to normal…

The magnetic field surrounding Earth is weakening, and scientists say it could be gone in as little as 500 years.

The result? Earth’s magnetic poles could, literally, flip upside down.

Of course most scientists believe that a pole flip takes hundreds or thousands of years to happen, but they don’t actually know because they have never seen one take place.

They also believe that we would potentially be facing “trillions of dollars in damage”to our power grid and electrical infrastructure because the magnetic field would be so weak during a flip…

Storms far less powerful than these could cause much more damage if they happened to hit while Earth’s magnetic field was in the midst of a reversal, Roberts said. The result would likely be trillions of dollars in damage to our electrical infrastructure, and right now, there’s no plan for dealing with an event of that magnitude.

“Hopefully, such an event is a long way in the future and we can develop future technologies to avoid huge damage,” Roberts concluded. Keep your fingers (but not your magnetic-field lines) crossed.

Most of the experts also believe that a pole flip is still a long way off, but what everybody agrees on is that the magnetic north pole is moving toward Russia at an accelerating pace…

But what’s really catching attention is the acceleration in movement. Around the mid-1990s, the pole suddenly sped up its movements from just over 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year to 34 miles (55 kilometers) annually. As of last year, the pole careened over the international date line toward the Eastern Hemisphere.

And earlier this year, authorities had to issue an emergency update to global positioning systems because “the magnetic field is changing so rapidly”…

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.

I know that I must sound like a broken record by now, but this is important. Our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, and we are seeing things happen that we have never seen before.

Everyone agrees that the Earth’s magnetic field is rapidly getting weaker, and that is making us more vulnerable with each passing day.

Most of the experts are trying to put a happy face on things and are assuring us that everything is going to be okay.

Hopefully they are right, but I wouldn’t count on it.

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If I recall there is geological evidence that the earth's magnetic field has reversed before.

Yep. Wikipedia: Reversal occurrences are statistically random, with some periods lasting as little as 200 years. There have been 183 reversals over the last 83 million years.

And, after all those reversals we still have an atmosphere (such as it is) and an ocean or two to put plastic in and worry about it's impending level increases.

Nonetheless, if they can blame this on first world countries, and try to extort cash, I imagine it could catch on with the usual suspects.

Radiation aside, not that it's unimportant, you may have noticed a shift in weather patterns recently, somewhat substantially due to this effect. The last mammoths froze with blooming buttercups in their teeth. Not so very long ago. So there's that....

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...Nonetheless, if they can blame this on first world countries, and try to extort cash, I imagine it could catch on with the usual suspects.

Oh yeah, no doubt.

They are already boldly tipping their hand on their climate change crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...ERSN4CoHQQlro1NIxtZQ



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I read that yesterday... but I don't really know what to think about it. It just seems like useless Doom Porn.
Besides, there's nothing we can do about it.

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Radiation aside, not that it's unimportant, you may have noticed a shift in weather patterns recently, somewhat substantially due to this effect. The last mammoths froze with blooming buttercups in their teeth. Not so very long ago. So there's that....

Yes there is that and there have been a few Movies/Books on the subject. I know this can be a mild change or a major life extinction moment. I'm just wondering how it's going to be. And how the info will be exploited. Don't think reducing Greenhouse gases would help but who knows what will occur to those type minds.

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Besides, there's nothing we can do about it.

Well, maybe not. But perhaps we should still put a team together to discuss it...

The magnetic field is not going away. It might flip, might even weaken substantially, but it is controlled by a massive molten core that isn’t going to cool and stop motion any time soon.

A sudden increase in unrestricted solar and cosmic radiation would not be good, but it has happened before and drives mutation and evolution. Our biggest problems stem from our dependence on electrical systems that might not work anymore, a massive worldwide population, and food manufacture that would crash if such an event took place. Even if we could grow crops, it would be on a vastly smaller scale if automation is taken out of the mix. Then there is fuel production being halted from tech seizing up. Power grids failing means way more than losing lights.

The atmosphere isn’t getting stripped away, all life isn’t getting wiped out, but it wouldn’t take much to start a cascading series of events that push humanity to the brink of extinction.

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there's nothing we can do about it.

Live aid/we are the world mega global benefit concert along with crippling taxes and regulations should solve the problem.

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A sudden increase in unrestricted solar and cosmic radiation would not be good, but it has happened before and drives mutation and evolution.

You don't know how many times I wished I had an extra hand, but telekinesis is really the mutation I'm hoping for.

It's a lot to take in. I wonder how it will effect things like refrigerator magnets, the stability of Guam, the Kardashians?

I'm going to need a bunch of new maps. Can I just scribble out "N" and write "S" over it? Will the sun still rise in the East?

Since we’re all going to die in twelve years anyways, why worry.

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Originally posted by Doc H.:
Radiation aside, not that it's unimportant, you may have noticed a shift in weather patterns recently, somewhat substantially due to this effect. The last mammoths froze with blooming buttercups in their teeth. Not so very long ago. So there's that....

Yes there is that and there have been a few Movies/Books on the subject. I know this can be a mild change or a major life extinction moment. I'm just wondering how it's going to be. And how the info will be exploited. Don't think reducing Greenhouse gases would help but who knows what will occur to those type minds.

As to greenhouse gases and the tiny, insignificant, inconsequential effect of human or even animal activity on the planet atmospherically or geologically, twenty or thirty thousand years or so (a geological tick of the clock) would essentially cover and conceal the simultaneous detonation of every nuclear weapon on earth, the simultaneous meltdown of every nuclear reactor, and the simultaneous methane expulsion from every whale, elephant, cow, horse, pig, dog, duck, gerbil and plankton released into the biosphere. If you could "blenderize" the entire biomass of planet earth into a uniform paste and spread it in the Grand Canyon, it wouldn't fill it. By a lot.

King Canute, tired of the court sycophants and fawning courtiers constantly declaring his omnipotence, had his throne carried to the edge of the sea, and commanded the tide to stop. Which it did not. Perhaps another demonstration is in order....

Sheesh, living so close to the water here along South Florida's coastline, just one more thing to worry about! It's bad enough knowing that that volcano in the Canary Islands is going to slide into the water causing a massive 300ft tidal wave speeding across the Atlantic and destroy most areas along the Eastern Seaboard...

Who really knows the REAL TRUTH?

And I woke up in a good mood today too. Thanks a lot!

I knew my tin foil hat would come in handy some day!

I knew this might not be popular here but I roll my eyes every time I see 'zero hedge' and take every article with a grain of salt.

They are the right wing version of slate or mother jones

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Originally posted by Scurvy:
I knew this might not be popular here but I roll my eyes every time I see 'zero hedge' and take every article with a grain of salt.

They are the right wing version of slate or mother jones

Well, the earth's magnetic north pole is indeed shifting at an accelerated rate. That's scientific fact. What we are to make of that though I suppose is up for debate.