Will We See a Reversal of the Earth’s Magnetic Field Within Our Lifetime? [1]

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Liz Bentley, Prevent Disease [3]
Waking Times [4]

Can you imagine waking up one morning to discover that all compasses are pointing south instead of north? The effect could cause geomagnetic health problems in up to 15% of the population of the planet.

It’s not as bizarre as it sounds. Earth’s magnetic field has flipped — though not overnight — many times throughout the planet’s history. Its dipole magnetic field, like that of a bar magnet, remains about the same intensity for thousands to millions of years, but for incompletely known reasons it occasionally weakens and, presumably over a...