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To everyone’s surprise, in the U. K. where genetically modified crops have been resisted and beekeeping is on a smaller scale with less pesticide use than in the United States, honey beekeepers in London who opened hives the end of March found at least half of their hives empty.
Monaco resident Nicolas Saussier, who has gone trawling in the Caribbean in the past, identified the fish as a type usually found only in a tropical climate. "I believe they're lost," surmised Saussier, who, incidentally, is Princess Stéphanie's press officer.
The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle -- like clockwork.
Originally posted by Hawk Eye
First we had the Bees, not returning to their hives.. getting lost??
Originally posted by effinlunatic
Originally posted by Hawk Eye
First we had the Bees, not returning to their hives.. getting lost??
No, they're dying off and we're killing them. Personally I'd welcome a shift of the poles, so the earth can shake of this pretentious cancer called 'us'.
June 18, 2007 - Source
Manchester Airport is to rename its two runways due to changes in the position of the magnetic North Pole.
Once known as 24R/06L (Runway 1) and 24L/06R (Runway 2) because of their position and compass heading, the numbers have been changed to 23L and 23R and to 05L and 05R.
The shift in the earth’s magnetic field means that although the runways are still in the same alignment on the earth’s surface, magnetic north has moved so their compass heading has changed.
Simon Butterworth, Manchester Airport’s airfield general manager, said: "It all sounds a bit complex but in a nutshell the magnetic poles are where all the lines of force of the Earth's magnetic field are drawn together.
“These magnetic poles are constantly drifting around and at present, magnetic north is heading out of Canadian territory into the Arctic Ocean at about 10 miles per year. That means magnetic north is on the move and so our runway has shifted on the compass from 24 to 23 and this name change reflects that shift.”
The renaming of the runways will not have an impact on flight paths; pilots are being informed of the change and the signage around the airfield is set to be changed.
The pole is moving about 40 km north per year, which will put it in Siberia by 2050 if it continues on its present course.
How can we explain this asymmetrical structure? According to the measurements of magnetic observatories on the planet—some of them three centuries old—the significant variation in the African zone seems a relatively recent occurrence in the Earth’s magnetic field. It is tied, “mathematically, to the fact that the Earth’s bipolar force has decreased in the last 2,000 years,” notes Hulot.
Indeed, the bipolar structure of the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. If this process continues at the present pace, researchers predict, the entire bipolar structure might actually disappear. We would then find on our planet “many north poles and many south poles scattered everywhere.”
Originally posted by effinlunatic
Personally I'd welcome a shift of the poles, so the earth can shake of this pretentious cancer called 'us'.