Hawaii as new north pole.

[junker]

ok...but it will kill the surfing industry....
http://www.halfpasthuman.com/HPHNPOLE.htm

[Brucey]

1. Gee, the weather seems funny lately.

[La_Serpiente]

2. I'm in Hawaii

I think it is kind of interesting to note that Hawaii will become the next north pole. Isn't there going to be global warming soon?

I'm in Hawaii, so I am kind of concerned.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Remember, we're talking *magnetic* north pole,

not north pole like "all full of snow and cold and stuff".

[slackmaster]

4. The sport of surfing would adapt

If Hawaii was at the north pole, the surf would be larger in California and east Asia.

[Ediacara]

5. but but but

Magnetic north/south doesn't have anything to do with polar ice!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Yes, exactly! The point I tried to make in post #3

Poeple: We have two north poles. We have one through which the world spins, which is the one that designates where the cold will be.

We have a magnetic north pole, which is the pole that your cmopass points to, which is somewhere in upper Alaska, and which pole tends to move around and sometimes switch sides of the earth it's on.

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Magnetic, Geographic ... eh!

Actually, many geologists think that when the two are off by more than a few degrees, the one starts to tug on the other, so a shift of the geographic poles can't be ruled out. (Sorry, source flamers, I don't have my list of geodynamics citations handy, I musta left 'em in my working pants.)

Robert Felix has written a popular book on the subject -- that an ice age is on its way, and will be correlated with a change in the Earth's magnetic poles. His website is IceAgeNow.com.



The scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute are more convinced that it's icemelt-induced changes in oceanic thermohaline convection that will bring on the ice.

Either way, it does not look good for surfers.

--bkl
Ice, ice, baby!