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				<title>Re: changing magnetic field</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Astrogeek</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>334222</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <blockquote> <p>There is no evidence of the magnetic field having any bearing on human life.</p> </blockquote> <p>I don't know about anyone else, but I found this unintentional pun to be LOL funny. It probably says more about my needy/weird sense of humor (and the fact that I collect old compasses) than anything else. :-)</p> 
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				<title>Re: changing magnetic field</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>The article you cite is a good example of a non-scientist putting two and two together and making five. It gets off to a bad start:</p> <blockquote> <p>The magnetic field causes a bubble around the Earth which protects it from solar winds, asteroids, and other objects in space.</p> </blockquote> <p>Curious how we don't seem to be protected from tiny objects such as meteors, which can be seen as shooting stars on virtually any night.</p> <blockquote> <p>The Goethe-Universitat study revealed that if birds could not see the magnetic field when migrating, they lost their &quot;bearings&quot; and could hurt themselves or even die. NASA reported in 2008 that there was a &quot;massive breach&quot; in the Earth's magnetic field, detected by THEMIS spacecraft. Solar wind can flow through this breach, causing enormous geomagnetic storms. It is very possible that such a geomagnetic storm is responsible for the current deaths of thousands of birds across the planet.</p> </blockquote> <p>The first sentence is quite possibly correct, although I'm not familiar with that particular study. The 2008 geomagnetic storm is a complete red herring, however. How is a storm in 2008 responsible for bird deaths in 2011? Incidentally, the &quot;massive breach&quot; closed after about an hour. If we look at geomagnetic alerts for January 2011 <a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/archive/current_month.html">here</a>, we find nothing for January 1st, the date of the Arkansas blackbird deaths, nor for most of the following week when the media were going into bird death overdrive.</p> <p>This article is fishing for links which aren't there and shouldn't be taken as anything other than ill-informed speculation.</p> <blockquote> <p>Could it be possible that our field is moving and weakening so fast that it could affect human life?</p> </blockquote> <p>The Earth's magnetic poles are always moving and the magnetic field strength is currently weakening, but neither are happening very fast. The field strength has a few centuries to go before it reaches a value which might be considered low. There is no evidence of the magnetic field having any bearing on human life.</p> <blockquote> <p>We know we survived a pole shift in the past but is it possible it also had disasterous effects as well?</p> </blockquote> <p>There is no correlation between past geomagnetic reversals and mass extinctions. I should add that polar wander is not the same as geomagnetic reversal, the last of which was 780,000 years ago.</p> 
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				<title>changing magnetic field</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>What do you make of this article?<br /> <a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/earths-magnetic-fields-may-be-causing-bird-and-fish-die-off-a328353">http://www.suite101.com/content/earths-magnetic-fields-may-be-causing-bird-and-fish-die-off-a328353</a></p> <p>Could it be possible that our field is moving and weakening so fast that it could affect human life? We know we survived a pole shift in the past but is it possible it also had disasterous effects as well?</p> 
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