Core and Pole Shifts: The Forces Behind Earth’s Instability, Part 1 of 2

This could be a sign that we’re about to experience something humans have never witnessed before: the magnetic polar flip. The Earth’s magnetic north was moving even before it was discovered in 1831. But magnetic north is now moving so quickly that it forced the world’s geomagnetism experts to update the World Magnetic Model a year early. If the Earth’s magnetic field decays significantly, scientists say it could collapse all together and flip polarity, changing magnetic north to south and south to north. As some have noticed, while scientists agree on the magnetic field reversal, they debate what it means and what the worst scenario could be. They happened before. And the process behind it might be a lot more dangerous than you think. Everything on Earth will be exposed to higher levels of radiation. Skin cancer could become as common as the flu. For the US economy alone, a single big solar storm would cost as much as $42 billion dollars per day. Another perspective focuses on the link between magnetic field shift mass extinctions and climate change. “It would have been an incredibly scary time, almost like the end of days.” NASA first detected a slight magnetic pole shift in 1998, intriguingly aligning with a prediction made by American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce decades ago. “Asia will suffer the most dramatic changes: Land will be covered from the Philipines to Japan by the ocean. Antarctica will no longer be covered in ice but will once again become fertile and green. Europe will suffer: Most of northern Europe will simply be gone, sunk into the sea as the tectonic plate underneath it collapses.”