Ummm, he's kinda right
the magnetic field flips approx every 150,000 years, the process taking around 2-3 thousand. when this does happen there is gonna be huge amounts of radiation which will kill quite a lot of life and cause huge amounts of cancerous growth in everything left.
Should happen in the next couple of thousand years. The best bet would probably be to build huge underground bunkers for people to live in while the process happens.The bit about climate change and the government is bollocks though.
(Buftoon posted this on, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 10:26, 3 replies)

There are seed banks too.
In case of crop disease, disaster or whatever.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 10:32, closed)

well yes
but the point of the conspiracy thinking is turning it into a narrative.
( rob, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 10:34, closed)

Piffle.
There's no demonstrated correlation between polar reversal and past major extinctions.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 11:50, closed)

good use of the word piffle.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 12:20, closed)

I toyed with "poppycock" but I thought that was overstating it a trifle.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 12:31, closed)

On Stilts
You could safely use poppycock without it being to exaggerated so long as you refrained from throwing in the stilts. That would be too much.
(justin(e), Fri 2 Dec 2011, 12:55, closed)

It took me a while to see it....
www.thisiskent.co.uk/beat-walk-streets/story-11982613-detail/story.html
(dchurch bah, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 11:05, closed)

Quite
The frequency of polar reversals is far greater than that of what are considered to be major extinctions.
(rockdoctor, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:24, closed)

^This^
Even allowing that an increase of solar radiation would cause an increase of cancers, these would only be a threat to the creatures that develop them. As long as those creatures manage to reproduce before dying - and there's precious little reason to suppose that any tumours would be a particular impediment to that - the species would be just dandy. Hence no extinctions.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 16:27, closed)

Why would it
create radiation?
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:00, closed)

The Earth's magnetic field protects us from some radiation.
As the field flips, its protective effect will diminish and perhaps disappear.

Nonetheless, I seem to recall working out that you would be entirely protected from the increase in radiation that would reach the Earth's surface by remaining indoors.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:03, closed)

Some sort of hat might be in order?

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 14:48, closed)