Monday, November 14, 2022

Position of the north magnetic pole since 1590. At least it's converging with the actual pole, and not wandering off into Canada.

 


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  1. I find it hard to believe that it has not been physically plotted since 2007.

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    1. Hear, hear!. Show us the plot actually observed from '07-present (which is known to a metaphysical certainty), and compare it with the "model", so we can see how wrong they guessed.

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  2. So what does that do to my compass

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    1. Your compass always follows 'magnetic' north. Because magnetic north is wandering *closer* to true north - your compass is actually becoming *more* accurate - for now, at least. Accounting for the difference is known as 'declination', and varies a bit depending upon where you are.

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  3. Does this mean the world is tipping? Seems to me that England is shifting towards a warmer clime.

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  4. It has been physically tracked since '07 and appears to be headed into Asiatic Russia. Eyeballing the plots, 2020 looked like about 87 N and 160E.

    The world isn't tipping, the magnetic pole wandering is independent of the geographic pole, which is axis the Earth rotates around.

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  5. This looks nothing like the geomagnetic reversal we were promised by "scientists".

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    1. The primary difference is 'speed of occurrence'. If it wanders far enough - the effect is basically the same. Also be aware that it's speed of 'wander' may not stay consistent either.

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  6. Gonna have to start calibrating my compass.

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  7. The declination for Central U.S.A. looks to be consistent (because Magnetic North is moving directly away from them), but can you imagine the headache for Europeans, having to update their correction so often, or risk being way off?

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