There are really 2 different concepts being discussed here.
1) Magnetic Pole Shift (the invisible stuff - makes your compass flip in the other direction)
2) Earth Crust Displacement (the world ending 2012 stuff - mega tidal waves, earth quakes, volcanoes, etc)
#1 is a widely accepted scientifically verified phenom. It has happened many times in the past, it will happen many times in the future. The chances
of it happening in our lifetime are low, and even when it does happen, it will take many years, perhaps hundreds for the event to finish. The results
are potentially catastrophic to world wide populations especially if we suffer a direct hit from a Solar coronal mass ejection/solar storm while the
magnetic shield is "down" during the flip. Our electronic infrastructure, so critical to our industrial production and distribution systems, could be
severely damaged during such a solar event while the Earth is unprotected.
#2 is a very controversial, yet potentially MUCH MORE devastating event than #1. The basic idea is that the Earths hard crust which sits on top of
the soft inner mantle is stable because the crust's weight is well balanced. However, during a major melting of the north & south poles, the
redistribution of all the ice at the poles to the oceans of the world creates a major imbalance. Keep in mind the Earth is spinning all the time. So
eventually the imbalance of weight becomes to much for the soft connection between the Earth's crust and the soft mantle, and the crust very quickly
breaks free of the mantle, "slips" in a natural way of "re-balancing" itself in accordance to the forces created by the Earth's spin. This slippage
will happen over the course of days and could potentially move all the tectonic plates by hundreds if not thousands of miles.
When that event in #2 occurs, that's where events not too much unlike what happened in the movie
2012 could occur. Take a glass of water and
fill the water to just below the rim. Wait for the water to become stable. Then quickly move the glass and watch the water splash up and over the
rim. That's exactly what our oceans & lakes would do during a Earth Crust Displacement event. Oceans would literally wash up and over land masses.
I doubt they would go as high as the Himalayas as depicted in the movie 2012, but it would be very bad.
Not to mention the violent Earth quakes and volcanic activity.
But remember, #2 has not bee proven to occur, but Graham Hancock's book
Finger Print of the
Gods lays out some very, very interesting evidence from around the world and through out history which suggests that it does and has
occurred.
edit on 4-2-2011 by harrytuttle because: (no reason given)
edit on 4-2-2011 by harrytuttle because: (no reason given)