Moving pole

[happy daze john in oz]

Bit of trivia in the news today regarding the North Pole.

It has now moved from the region in Canada to that of Alaska and scientists are not sure where it will stop.

[Doc Vernon]

How can the North Pole move i ask myself!????
Cheers


Added Ah!! a bit of light! LOL

earth rotation - Does the geographic North Pole move? - Earth Science Stack Exchange

[j.sabourn]

I sometimes get muddled up when people only describe the North Magnetic pole. When I started learning navigation at 15 , the Earth was always depicted as a globe inclined 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. With the earth also depicted as a big bar magnet with magnetic lines of force coming out of the north magnetic pole , following the curvature of the earth and disappearing into the South magnetic pole. Therefore I assume any change in the NMP must have a similar effect on the SMP. These lines of force have a direct bearing on what we call magnetic variation and the annual change can also be worked out for the future , and on a Mercator chart such changes are are noted on the lines of variation themselfs . If there are unknown changes to these magnetic properties myself with the limited basic knowledge I have, would assume that it was probably caused by changes in the speed and rotation of the earth or something similar . And for those who spend all their lives studying such would be able to come out with a plausible reason for any unforecasted changes to such. JS

[Graham Shaw]

# 3 I feel Poles apart these days from explanatory ( or ex-planetary (!) discourse. ). It always reminds me of slumping back in a hard-bottomed chair in a stuffy college classroom on a hot afternoon after a liquid lunch,listening to a humourless lecturer (whom you could never imagine being at sea and letting his hair down -they usually had none though- and going ashore in Hamburg or Hamilton),but perhaps that is why he is teaching-don't they say about nautical college lecturers -those who can--teach.The rest of us just go to sea....
Listening to many such lecturers always reinforced my desire to be back at sea- get the exams over post haste and ,hopefully pass and don't have to wish I had listened now to those lectures (!)--and get me a ship-quick,quick......

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[j.sabourn]

Even the title of this post Graham reminds me of a Polish Gypsy , reminds me of him sitting there whipping his horse that is pulling his caravan , the horse of course being called Putin which has a brand on his buttock saying made in the USA . Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

A further bit to this, on the net the other day.

The poles are moving and this will result in the end of planet earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somehow I think we have enough looneys on this planet to do the job with out the poles.

[j.sabourn]

Will have to ask the polar bears on that one. JS