Climate Change Moved the North Pole

The idea that the North Pole can move is nothing new, but the findings of a recent study suggest that Santa might need to pack up and find a new apartment.

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[johnholleran]

"Oh look, the north pole is moving again"
"Hm, which direction?"
"South"
"Ah, it's always going south it seems"

[fatherofjman]

I think saying climate change is playing a role in the magnetic flip is a bit of a stretch...wouldn’t it be far more likely that the inverse would be true? I mean last time I checked the magnetic fields have some influence ove

[charllandsberg]

I'm sorry but Chandler Wobble Tiktok Dance is a promise you can't get out of now :P

[PenfookioGaming]

you have to love when "scientist" manipulate their data till it fits their hypothesis. Anyone else questioning the fact the fact that the earths magnetic field comes from the core of the earth? The climate of the earth will not effect the magnetic field is a few years. Sure seems like they were looking for an answer and they kept moving numbers until they found the answer they wanted.

[geniej]

I'ma need an explanation of what moving "east" or "west" means when applied to the north pole....

[BensCoffeeRants]

I've heard a while ago that the poles were weakening and reversing polarity as they do over many many years. I would think thats what's causing the change and potentially the warming as well maybe not the other way around.

[UnterBlog]

There are other theories. Why is the magnetic field drastically degrading? The upcoming pole shift might result from the galactic current sheet which changes polarity.

[DanielSMatthews]

This video is nonsense, the effect that the moving _magnetic pole_ has on the Earth's interaction with the _solar wind_ is greater and can explain the subsequent shift in the _rotational pole_ entirely.

[EyesOfByes]

2:45 "There are two kinds of people: One that can extrapolate from sufficient data."

[jarehelt]

the climate has been changing as long as there has been a climate. There were times during the cretaceous when there was no ice caps at all! (gasp!) but it wasn't the end of the world and there were times when the entire earth was covered in ice down to the equator. Which would probably would bring humans to the brink of extinction

[sebastienh]

Coming next: “ZOMBIE ATTACKS LESS UNLIKELY IN THE NEAR FUTURE BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE”

[dougsinthailand]

If I'm not mistaken, the study refers to the change in the Earth's MAGNETIC north pole rather than the GEOGRAPHIC north pole. Polaris is still the north star, and the Earth hasn't been "knocked off its axis".

[haveagooddaytoo]

"Gonna move to Canada to find which apartment Santa is moving to ..."🇨🇦

[StitchTheFox]

All this hot weather is melting the ground it sits in, no wonder it moved. They should have put the pole farther in the ice, then it definitely wouldn't have went anywhere.

[maryonette]

They say we fear most what we don't understand. However, the more I learn about how we're shitting in our own pool the more scary it is

[fernandor]

I imagine the Chandler WOBBle being a super awkward nerdy dance that probably looks like Sheldon hoola hooping very stiffly

[johnbagley]

Good info!
I was able to deduce (hopefully correctly) that you were referring to true north, rather than magnetic north (which also has been known to drift) but it would have been helpful to have mentioned this at the beginning, so I would not be left wondering. :-)

[JayOyster]

Just to state something that should be obvious, but based on some comments, obviously isn’t, there are two north poles. This video is talking about the rotational pole, the line around which the planet physically rotates. The magnetic poles on the other hand are the places where the Earth’s magnetic field lines converge. And the two poles are offset; they don’t sit in the same location. And as with climate, the scientists have good theories about the normal motions of the rotational pole and what they’re doing is noting changes from that normal motion that just happen to coincide with rapid ice melting at the poles. It makes perfect sense that a shift in the mass distribution on a rotation body will change the way it spins. You can see that in dramatic fashion watching an ice skater. None of this conversation has anything to do with the magnetic poles.

[JNCressey]

"North pole moving east"

interviewers who ask the 'walk south, then west, then north' question: "write that down"

[StevenSiew]

You should have made it very CLEAR that you are talking about the geographical North pole and NOT the magnetic north pole.