Researchers Discover a 'Fast Flip' in History of Earth's Magnetic Field; Making South North, and North South

Deborah Byrd : Aug 24, 2018
EarthSky.org

[EarthSky.org] A research team led by scientists in Taiwan and China announced on August 21, 2018, that Earth's protective magnetic field has undergone relatively rapid shifts in the past, including one lasting just two centuries ... Such an event might leave Earth with a substantially reduced magnetic field for some unknown period of time, exposing our world to dangerous effects from the sun. If it occurred in today's world of ubiquitous electric power and global interconnected communications, a reduced magnetic field could cost us trillions of dollars... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here. Click here to read. (Illustration: Artist's concept of Earth's magnetic field, which surrounds and protects our planet, and which sometimes flips/Credit: NASA/Peter Reid, University of Edinburgh/astrobio.net/via EarthSky)