Originally Posted by
Asturias56
well magnetic North has been moving somewhat faster than usual recently I understand
of course we're also getting closer to the point when the earth's field will flip and North becomes south - "it's grim up South " doesn't have the same ring to it
If you want to be ultra-pessimistic read Jim Al Khalili's book "Sunfall" which postulates a coronal mass ejection hitting Earth just at the point when the magnetic field passes through a temporary zero. Not likely but not impossible. Very nasty.