

#Gprojector shift poles full
According to Milankovitch, Earth’s axis completes one full cycle of ‘precession’ approximately every 26,000 years. Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch first argued the point a century ago. When they oppose each other, glaciers advance. In a 2011 paper published in the journal Nature, Huybers explained two cycles of tilt change, ‘obliquity’ and ‘precession’. Harvard climate scientist professor Peter Huybers has used computer models to demonstrate that tiny shifts in Earth’s axis cause glaciers to either advance or retreat in cycles lasting either 10,000 or 40,000 years. Incidentally many of Hapgood’s conclusions about pole shift were endorsed by Albert Einstein. Hapgood believed that the rapidity of this process accounts for the fact that undigested summer plants are found in the stomachs of mammoths frozen in Siberia. As early as the 1950s maverick cartographer Charles Hapgood wrote that an advanced pre-diluvian civilization, possibly Atlantis, was destroyed by a sudden shift in the angle of Earth’s polar axis.Īlso relevant may be Hapgood’s notion that significant periodic shifts in the planet’s geographic poles are at least one cause of what we call ice ages, where vast regions move quickly from temperate to cold areas and vice versa. Still, just as many worry about the dangers of catastrophic global warming, or the possibility of being hit by a space bolide (asteroid or comet), others are on the watch for a ‘pole shift,’ and they are not the first to worry about such a thing. Academic experts have predicted, in fact, that within fifty years, the north magnetic pole could shift far enough for Alaska to lose its famed northern lights (Aurora Borealis) to more southerly latitudes in Siberia and Europe. Triggered, it is believed, by molten iron at Earth’s core, the magnetic pole is distinct from the geographic pole which is determined by planetary rotation. While geographic pole shifts, as envisioned by the likes of Edgar Cayce, Charles Hapgood and others, are rejected by establishment science, no one denies that Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move. Spotlighted in the study is something called the ‘South Atlantic Anomaly’ which some scientists have warned could signal an immanent and catastrophic reversal of the poles of Earth’s magnetic field that protects us from cosmic rays and space rocks. That is the conclusion of a new study published in June in the journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America ( ). Our compasses may already be tracking the forces at work, but the good news is: Earth’s North and South magnetic poles are NOT about to swap positions-at least not any time soon.
