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foobiekr · 2 months ago
foobarkey · 2 months ago
Since the core is spinning as it always has, then dont think we humans caused this one? :)

Our energy needs are always insatiable so thats why I am not a big fan of geothermal, better not mess with the balance down there

zamalek · 2 months ago
Or geothermal uptake is nothing compared to regular volcanic activity. Earth's poles swap positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

> Reversal occurrences appear to be statistically random. There have been at least 183 reversals over the last 83 million years

Whether this is part of one is anyone's guess.

Mindless2112 · 2 months ago
There was a time when we could say "our greenhouse gas emissions are nothing compared to regular biological processes," and yet here we are.
ge96 · 2 months ago
> core is spinning

If Virgil needs more blood, it will be my blood

pizzathyme · 2 months ago
One thing not mentioned in the article I expected: Does this invite more/less harmful UV radiation? Does it change overall temperature projections?
throwup238 · 2 months ago
It means more UV radiation. The Hubble telescope for example doesn't run its UV sensors while passing through the anomaly to keep them from getting damaged.
ACCount37 · 2 months ago
Wait, how? UV is spicy photons. Photons don't respond to magnetic fields, do they now?

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alganet · 2 months ago
I wish these articles would go all the way showing a decent visualization of the increase.

I remember something like a KML overlay that would display magnetic data on Google Earth, but it was kind of obsolete and didn't had any historical data that could be used to observe change.