Pole Reversal
As anyone with an interest in cosmology will know, the sun’s magnetic field flips every 11 years like clock work: north becomes south, south becomes north, and the world keeps turning.
What you may not know is that the Earth undergoes a magnetic field flip of its own, at best guess every 11,500 years. According to Wikipedia:
At present, the overall geomagnetic field is becoming weaker at a rate which would, if it continues, cause the dipole field to temporarily collapse by 3000–4000 CE. The present strong deterioration corresponds to a 10–15% decline over the last 150 years and has accelerated in the past several years; however, geomagnetic intensity has declined almost continuously from a maximum 35% above the modern value achieved approximately 2000 years ago.
The Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate — 10 km per year at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40 km per year in 2003. It is also unknown if this drift will continue to accelerate.
A reversal could affect everything from navigation and communications equipment to the composition of the atmosphere, say experts.
And according to Dutch scientists, a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles could happen sooner than we think. They have found that the planet’s magnetic field is becoming gradually less stable.
Many scientist believe this will happen as soon as the year 2012.
In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that when our star’s awesome magnetic field, it signalled the arrival of a solar maximum. But it wasn’t so obvious to the average human. The Sun’s magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere at the start of the new millenium, now points south. It’s a topsy-turvy situation, but not an unexpected one. “This always happens around the time of solar maximum,” says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. “The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of the sunspot cycle. In fact, it’s a good indication that Solar Max is really here.”
Were the Earth’s magnetic field to flip, it would result in a catastrophe that would deliver massive destruction to life as we know it, and may even affect its continued existence on the planet.
The magnetic field of the Earth is not an accident of natural science. Its most important task is to protect us against cosmic and solar radiation. Without this field, life is practically impossible and in a short time, life on our planet would be extinguished. An all-burning, deadly radioactive radiation would torment the earth’s surface.
So here we are talking about an incompatible duality: despite the fact that a huge amount of people, animals and plants will die, life will continue to exist, because the exhausted battery of the earth will be reloaded by the enormous solar storm. During thousands of years the magnetic field of the earth can therefore remain stable, protecting the flora and fauna against the damaging radiation. While doing this job, the inner battery of the earth will run out again and another cycle of destruction followed by creation and mutation will start anew.
