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Originally Posted by pelathais
The book that they referred to appears to have been "Pole Shift" by John White. John White was never associated with NOAA in any way, he's not even an American. He is a British/Canadian psychiatrist. He was active in Vineyard church planting and died in 2002. Just how this makes him an authority on meteorology and the effect the earth's magnetic field has on climates is left unsaid.
I don't think the interview is with John White, however. Like I said earlier, it's hard for me to follow all of the audio. The stuff about the "Coriolis effect" however doesn't appear to have been explained very well. From what I gathered, the speaker being interviewed seemed to think that the entire core of the planet was going to "flip." We really don't have any evidence that this has ever happened and it does stretch one's credulity.
The "flipping" of the magnetic poles doesn't involve the earth itself or even the nickel-iron core of the planet flipping over. It is simply a reversal of polarity. There is a huge amount of evidence that this happens with some regular frequency.
The speaker in the vid was mistaken when he said the evidence for the pole reversals was "in the Arctic where lava comes to the surface and freezes..."
The evidence is largely on the sea floor in the temperate and equatorial areas where sea floor spreading has caused iron rich basalts to come up to the surface of the sea floor (miles beneath the surface of the ocean) and the lava cools preserving the alignment of the iron in which ever direction the poles were at the time.
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Lots of interesting thoughts.
I have to go for now... but I look forward to the volley of ideas. As usual... I'm not looking for a back patting session and I am not convinced one way or another. I just tire of the quick "fringe" labels which immediately mean that this is not worthy of substantive discussion.
I appreciate your post and I plan on giving it much thought.
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