(account deleted) 13 Jan 2011 20:15
A certain miscreant who couldn't be bothered with obeying rules for this forum had two of his threads deleted, one of which dealt with this article. Miscreant crowed that the phenomenon described therein is evidence of a pole shift. While I was writing a reply, moderators were kind enough to delete Miscreant's thread. I'll post that reply here in case anyone else asks about the same article.
Said article makes very clear what's going on: refraction of light by the atmosphere has increased in the High Arctic because of greater near-surface temperature-gradients. It has nothing to do with any pole shift, either magnetic or geographic. Anyone can figure this out by asking how a pole shift would make it easier for residents of Resolute Bay to see further around the same globe.
To learn more about how atmospheric refraction affects where and when the Sun first becomes visible at dawn (and therefore the date on which it first becomes visible in the High Arctic after the Winter Solstice), see here, pp. 103-105. As explained on the bottom of p. 104 and the top of p. 105, the effects are particularly dramatic at high latitudes, and therefore at Resolute Bay.
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