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2016-04-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The North Pole is moving, blame global warming
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Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Ima calling bullshit - if I remember my high school science classes correctly, that massive ball of molten iron in the Earth's core would be a far better candidate for explaining this movement.
Posted by Raj 2016-04-12 00:21||   2016-04-12 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The earth's North Pole is moving toward London.

It might be moving in the direction of London by a few miles due to mass changes on the Earth's surface, it will never get to London.

By shifting the balance of water and ice on land through global warming.

Dams and aquifer depletion are at least as significant.
Posted by phil_b 2016-04-12 01:29||   2016-04-12 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3  it will never get to London

Oh, yeah? How do you know it's not on it's second lap?

Seriously, Raj nails it. Magnetic declination changes over time and with location, likely due to that big swirly blog of molten iron. It's Science, bitches.
Posted by SteveS 2016-04-12 02:04||   2016-04-12 02:04|| Front Page Top

#4 They are talking about the rotational pole, not the magnetic pole.
Posted by phil_b 2016-04-12 06:22||   2016-04-12 06:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I fergit - is it 2/3 of studies are later 'disproven' - by other studies?
Posted by Bobby 2016-04-12 07:29||   2016-04-12 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 They are talking about the rotational pole, not the magnetic pole.

Axial precission
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-12 08:27||   2016-04-12 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm surprised Business Insider carries such a juvenile science article. The North pole has always moved. It used to be in the land mass now referred to as Saudi Arabia.
Next you will see an article about the velocity of the earth is being slowed by air pollution. Or one even harder to believe...the Clinton emails were disinformation to the US foreign enemies.
Posted by jvalentour 2016-04-12 08:48||   2016-04-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#8 By shifting the balance of water and ice on land through global warming

I remember a Geography class that described the surface of the earth. After a series of slides and film strips (yup, no PowerPoint) showing the Teton Range, Death Valley, Himalayas, Marianas Trench, etc., the professor (no TA there) said that even with those apparently vast changes in the earth's surface structure, taken as a whole and given the size of the earth, its surface is still as smooth as an eggshell.

We are just subatomic particles in the grand scheme of things.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-04-12 09:08||   2016-04-12 09:08|| Front Page Top

#9 We are just subatomic particles in the grand scheme of things. Posted by Mullah Richard

...and the older one gets, the more 'subatomic' you realize that you actually are. The good news; just like the Haplotaxida we have an earthly purpose as well.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-12 09:15||   2016-04-12 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Even after all these years I'm still surprised at the amount of self righteous bullshit that streams out of "news" articles to sell their story.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-12 09:27||   2016-04-12 09:27|| Front Page Top

#11 It's a "filler" article. The editors had a gap in their paper and couldn't fill it with actual/factual news or ads, so they found a "shiny" article to placate the proles.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-04-12 10:08||   2016-04-12 10:08|| Front Page Top

#12 #6 - P2k - so now we can teach science in terms of man-made global climate change. Otherwise, precission would not even rate a footnote.

Perhaps climate change will spark a revolution in science? Like the G. W. Bush of history!
Posted by Bobby 2016-04-12 11:14||   2016-04-12 11:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Ex-gyro/IMU guy says it is precession.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-04-12 11:55||   2016-04-12 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 just like the Haplotaxida we have an earthly purpose as well

So true, Meneer.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-04-12 13:16||   2016-04-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Thank you Whiskey Mike.
Apparently records extend back more than 100 some years. Look up:
Axial Precession

Did you?
Racist.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-12 15:39||   2016-04-12 15:39|| Front Page Top

#16 The pole is not moving toward London, London is moving toward the pole.


So some imbecile actually thinks a minor change in the water/ice balance is going to shift the entire crust of the planet? That would be like an ant crawling on a soccer ball makes the whole ball spin.
Posted by AlanC 2016-04-12 16:11||   2016-04-12 16:11|| Front Page Top

#17 It's a miracle!
Moar Joy of Sex!
And bier!

/Pope Frank
Posted by Shipman 2016-04-12 18:29||   2016-04-12 18:29|| Front Page Top

#18 Could be both. Could be the ghosts of Britannia are trying to get the hell away from Europe.

Hey, sign for UK to leave EU!
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-12 18:33||   2016-04-12 18:33|| Front Page Top

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