{"id":643,"date":"2010-09-03T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=643"},"modified":"2010-09-03T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T04:26:49","slug":"rapid-geomagnetic-pole-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/09\/rapid-geomagnetic-pole-shift-643.html","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence for Rapid Magnetic Pole Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Suddenly a candidate for 2012 becomes more feasible&#8230; if only we can work out a way the Mayans could have predicted it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous evidence for a high-speed pole shift (in 1995) was dismissed by most scientists because it was an anomaly. Now that more evidence has emerged, it is time for geologists to accept that a magnetic pole shift can affect us without notice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This lava, Bogue says, initially started to cool and then was heated again within a year as a fresh lava flow buried it. The fresh lava re-magnetized the crystals within the rock below, causing them to reorient themselves a whopping 53 degrees. At the rate the lava would have cooled, says Bogue, that would mean the magnetic field was changing direction at approximately 1 degree per week. (Read the full news item at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/09\/superfast-magnetic-reversal\/\">Wired.com<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still scientists are clinging to a slow reversal, rather than an on\/off switch. 53 degrees of difference between one year and the next does not necessarily mean it took a whole year. If there were three data points, then a rate of change can be deduced. But with two, it is impossible to determine the rate of change. It&#8217;s like saying I was asleep at midnight, and awake at 7am, therefore it takes me 7 hours to slowly awake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But apocalyptic SyFy channel movies to the contrary, nobody should worry about waking up one morning to geomagnetic havoc, says Bogue. \u201cTo geologists a polarity reversal is a nearly instantaneous thing that changes a global feature of the Earth \u2014 it\u2019s really a spectacular phenomenon,\u201d he says. \u201cBut if you were alive when it was happening, it probably wouldn\u2019t be that big a deal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>No big deal!<\/strong> Well, all GPS systems will fail, alongside any equipment that depends on it. We are also likely to discover that many more animals are affected that expected, and who knows what a planet full of disoriented beings would be like! Oh, and don&#8217;t forget that minor detail of the protection we receive from the geomagnetic field &#8211; if the pole shift involves that shield disappearing for a day, anything out in the sun could suffer terribly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly a candidate for 2012 becomes more feasible&#8230; if only we can work out a way the Mayans could have predicted it!<br \/>\nPrevious evidence for a high-speed pole shift (in 1995) was dismissed by most scientists because it was an anomaly. Now that more evidence has emerged, it is time for geologists to accept that a magnetic pole shift can affect us without notice.<br \/>\nThis lava, Bogue says, initially started to cool and then was heated again within a year as a fresh lava flow buried it. The fresh lava re-magnetized the crystals within the rock below, causing them to reorient themselves a whopping 53 degrees. At the rate the lava would have cooled, says Bogue, that would mean the magnetic field was changing direction at approximately 1 degree per week. (Read the full news item at Wired.com.)<br \/>\nStill scientists are clinging to a slow reversal, rather than an on\/off switch. 53 degrees &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magnetic-pole-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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