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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:42:55 -0700

The program was a Nova episode called “Magnetic Storm”.  The poles reverse every quarter million years or so on average, but not with regularity.  It’s been 700,000-800,000 since the last one.  Over the last century the field has weakened, and, should it continue weakening at the same rate, it would reach a switchable state sometime near 2550.  But this may not be a continuous trend, but rather a wave in an irregular cycle.  Right now, the field is as strong as it’s been in 50,000 years; and although it has been weaker in the last three-quarter-million-years, it’s maintained its polar alignment. 

 

~ Stephen

 


From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:50 PM
To: Pete; North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71

 

At present, the earth's magnetic poles are in the process of reversing, which is causing the magnetic fields to be irregular and to break up. There was a very good program on public television not too long ago that explained it, and how it's a regular event every few thousand years.
-Lon Rombough
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On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Pete wrote:

I'm a ham radio operator....we're having a fit with the solar flux
now...sunspots, different types of solar radiation cause all kinds of weird
things to happen...affects the Earth's magnetic field also...wonder if it's
messing up the pigeons and bees also???
Pete in MS..zone 8




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