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no, it's not a reversal, it's a shift... the projections suggest the new poles will be somewhere around the carribean and somewhere in china, the rotation axis is going to be roughly 90 degrees that in west africa and the antipodes

it has happened before, we know there was forests in antarctica once and maybe there will be again, and there is other parts of the world where this is clear, many fixated magnetic materials pointing the wrong direction, and i also would add, because i am quite sure that the mass of this planet has been increasing, and that all celestial bodies either eventually shatter or keep growing and become stars - so whatever happened 12k years ago is not gonna be the same inertial force as this time, or the time before it, due to differences in mass and thus the threshold force and how far that force can push us around

anyway, the many ancient flood stories tell you something about what is coming, it's not just a pole shift it is also likely to induce changes in motion of meteor clusters like the taurids which will move differently due to moving poles as well

anyhow, i for one look forward to not having these flickering lights in my face all the time

for now it's where i work, and i would love it to be otherwise