But not for what was foretold by the Great Consensus…. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/weakening-earths-magnetic-field-has-greatly-accelerate
The underground sugar caves of our insect overlords may end up being the way to go after all…
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Democrats must either not be aware of the phenomena or must not have figured out a way to turn it into a human caused emergency that is primarily caused by capitalism or American’s (fossil fuels, SUV’s, etc) and can be solved by collecting more taxes and giving the money to a yet to be named government agency. If Obama was still president, this would have already been in motion. OBTW there is already a consensus among scientists…. Sorry to be so whatever on a Sunday afternoon I just could not resist.
It is a glorious Sunday spring day, that is true. My grass needs mowing, but — it’s too wet for it. Oh, snap. Guess I should open a window and wash some wine bottles, there’s a carboy that’s ready to get corked.
Are you a winemaker?
I make plum wine to make use of my trees. Drinkable wine is easy. Excellent wine is hard.
I make drinkable wine.
Been watching that for awhile. Unlikely to reach zero in our lifetimes, but in our grandchildren’s lifetimes, probably. It is accelerating. But that article misses quite a few points.
First, it won’t strip the atmosphere. If that were the case, we wouldn’t have an atmosphere now, since this has happened many times in the past.
Second, the length of time it takes is likely less than 1000 years, but more than 100. The magnetic field is recorded in molecules in rocks (this is how we know when it has happened). Uncertainty in the ages of the rocks is where the uncertainty in the duration of the flip comes from.
Third, our getting cancer isn’t the reason for worry (we can wear hats and sunscreen and stay indoors most of the time). The problem is that our crops may not survive. No crops, no food. The other big worry is what the effect would be on life in the oceans, most of which is near the surface and in sunlight. Phytoplankton constitute the foundation of the so-called food pyramid.
It’s something to keep an eye on. It is more likely to be a near-term threat than, for example, the Yellowstone supervolcano.
I love this bit of journalistic hyperbole: “The result? Earth’s magnetic poles could, literally, flip upside down.” Yeah, well duh. It’s happened many, many times before. It’s only a surprise to those who don’t read.
Hmm. I should do a post on the subject, maybe tied to the EMP threat. There are a lot of commonalities. Always on the lookout for crap to write about, these days.
Be interesting to see a post on EMP threat.
That part’s going to take some time, because there’s been so much sky-is-going-to-fall-and-BURN hype that it’s going to be difficult to go back and find real science. As a physicist, I know it wouldn’t be as bad as shown in One Second After (which everybody quotes). For one thing, cars without electronics, and diesels, would be fine and sources of supply would keep working.
But a worthy topic.