What effects will the magnetic poles switching have?

Question

i know some sciencist believe that major existions have happened because of the poles switching. and i know we are do for a switching. i also heard that the north magnetic pole is on the move right now it is in canada and soon will be in russia. do you think it is really moving or do you think it has to do with the poles switching?

Answer 1

The magnetic pole does reverse on itself periodically. It is also always drifting, but very slowly over time.

The next abrupt reversal might be due in 1000-2000 years, modern man's recorded history doesn't go back to the last one so NOBODY really knows what the effects will be. Any doom and gloom predictions are speculative science fiction or fantasy.

So, don't worry too much about mass extinctions and the like, as there is no hard science on the subject, only speculation, besides, you'll be long gone.

Magnetic drift IS very important though. While it really doesn't effect most people, it does impact anyone that requires some sort of navigation tool like compasses, GPS, and the like. The casual GPS users get much of their data automatically corrected so they don't need to worry about errors in drift (thanks to the techs dealing with the satelites and datastreams). Guys that need hyper accurate data (like me) need to do a bit more work and have to also deal with theoretical models of the earth's shape; sorry, another topic.

Compass guys like me (a surveyor) can take care of it manually. That drift can really mess with the finding of or placement of property lines and other ground features. In my field, Land Surveying, that can cost a LOT and can cause court cases in a hurry.

On the fun side, it might be kind of fun watching the sun rise in the West and set in the East. I may also have to use my compass upside down to get it to read correctly.

Answer 2

the technique of magnetic polarity reversal is amazingly sluggish. the total magnetic power of the Earth has been lowering VERY slowly via my fifty six+ twelve months existence. Scientists are not particular how long an entire polarity shift takes, even although that's as long as 3000 years or longer. Scientists additionally do no longer be responsive to no count number if the magnetic field is going to 0 formerly the polarity shifts. I doubt that it does bypass to 0, because of the fact, if it did bypass to 0, there may be no magnetic field deflecting cosmic rays and alpha radiation faraway from the Earth, so extra issues might die at a faster fee than commonplace, yet there is not any correlation of magnetic polarity reversals with extinctions. The magnetic polarity reversal checklist is going lower back in basic terms one hundred eighty million years, so the top of the Cretaceous era and the commencing up of the Tertiary is roofed, and so are the final 4 advances of the glaciers Pliocene and Pleistocene (Quaternary era) geological ranges.

Answer 3

The magnetic poles periodically switch about every million years or so. But the exact location moves slowly and constantly, but a complete switch is not expected any time soon. Many things rely on the pole being north, including migrating birds, insects, human navigation. There would be severe changes in bird migration and probably extinctions if the poles switched suddenly.

Answer 4

Polar reversals occur periodically but erratically. The average time between reversals is on the order of hundreds of thousands of years with reversal completions taking tens of thousands of years. While reversals are occurring, secondary dipoles (not located near the axial pole) assume the role of the primary dipoles. Extinctions are not associated with polar reversals. There have been five major extinctions in the Phanerozoic Eon while there have been well over a thousand polar reversals. Polar wandering is an established fact and this has nothing to do with polar reversals. The next polar reversal will have no effect on anyone alive today.

Answer 5

It's the same thing. It just happens in more time than it takes to slurpee.