Loading ...“Is there any basis in fact for claims that planet earth is going to experience an upcoming “Pole Shift”?”
Because if you did, I find it interesting that copilot automatically assumes that you are talking about a catastrophic situation. And emphasises it a couple of sentences later. To me this indicates that Copilot (and thus the other AI systems) are programmed to assume that you are a doomsdayer, seeing death and destruction in every natural phenomenon. It even calls you a pseudo-scientist!
Alternatively you could read wikipedia on the subject. Only articles that can the leftards can manipulate to political advantage get mascerated into irrelevence, and they don’t seem to have found a use for pole reversals (yet). Unlike Copilot they produce their references, so in a nutshell:
Where copilot was right (or, at least, agrees with wiki)
Yes, poles wander. Sailors have known this for centuries since the compass was invented.
The reversals are completely random. Actually, this is the ‘NewScience’ way of saying that we have no idea what triggers them, they don’t occur regularly timewise (unlike the sun’s poles which flip every eleven years) so they are “random”. So yes, we do not know if one is due, or if we are in the process of going through one.
What copilot is wrong about.
Reversals can be as short as possibly 200 years
The poles can wander by up to 6 degrees, about 420 miles, per day.
They might cause localised mass extinctions. There is simply not enough knowledge as to the localised destruction of the magnetic field (it is not a smooth process, the earth seems to develop several poles all over the place during a reversal) to know what surface conditions are like combined with fossil evidence which is very sparse at the best of times.
Copilot has no basis for saying that it won’t be catastrophic regarding space electronics and grid stability. These things are already fragile with our existing stable magnetosphere because of the instability of the sun. With a weakened, patchy magnetosphere Carrington events would become much more common at a local, if not global level, and they affect all circuits with current running through them, not just satellites and the grid. Driving your car? All circuits frazzled. Left the lights on at home? House probably on fire. But almost certainly not in our lifetime.
(‘pick yer teeth out’, ABBA 1979)