{"id":314,"date":"2003-12-12T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/losing_strength\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:33:16","slug":"losing_strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/losing_strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=624&#038;ncid=624&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/ap\/20031212\/ap_on_sc\/pole_flip_2\">Uh oh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The strength of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet&#8217;s poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said Thursday.<br \/>\nAt that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether in 1,500 to 2,000 years, said Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University.<br \/>\nHundreds of years could pass before a flip-flopped field returned to where it was 780,000 years ago. But scientists at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union cautioned that scenario is an unlikely one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This change allegedly may affect satellites and the chemistry of the atmosphere.  I&#8217;m not sure what other impact this may have on people.  But if you&#8217;re prone to roam in the wilderness using on a compass to navigate, you might think about investing in one of those GPS gadgets.  &#8216;Course if the satellites get knocked out those won&#8217;t be much help, either.<br \/>\nGood luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/losing_strength\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Losing Strength\"><p>Uh oh: The strength of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet&#8217;s poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said Thursday. At that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}