{"id":9035,"date":"2018-02-04T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:00:19","slug":"9035-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/04\/9035-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of the planet could be rendered uninhabitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5471189\/earth-magnetic-poles-flip-effects-blackout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Earth\u2019s magnetic poles could be about to FLIP sparking chaos and mass blackouts<\/h1>\n<p>Parts of the planet could be rendered uninhabitable by the reversal, experts have warned<\/p>\n<p>By Brittany Vonow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5471189\/earth-magnetic-poles-flip-effects-blackout\/#\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thesun-article-image wp-image-5471353 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nintchdbpict000381979496.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960\" alt=\" The change could cause disastrous repercussions\" width=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nintchdbpict000381979496.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960\" \/><\/a><em>GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THE Earth&#8217;s magnetic poles could be about to flip, sparking chaos and making large parts of the planet uninhabitable, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have warned that the change is\u00a0extremely likely with the magnetic field weakening by 15 per cent over 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/article\/books-alanna-mitchell-spinning-magnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undark report,<\/a>\u00a0the flip could cause &#8220;devastating streams of particles from the sun, galactic cosmic rays, and enhanced ultraviolet B rays from a radiation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report warned that satellite timing systems that govern electric grids could fail, causing a ripple effect that would shut off lights, computers and phones.\u00a0Even flushing the toilet could become impossible, according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>The article shared concerns from\u00a0Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who warned &#8220;that parts of the planet will become uninhabitable during a reversal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5471189\/earth-magnetic-poles-flip-effects-blackout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun Earth\u2019s magnetic poles could be about to FLIP sparking chaos and mass blackouts Parts of the planet could be rendered uninhabitable by the reversal, experts have warned By Brittany Vonow GETTY IMAGES THE Earth&#8217;s magnetic poles could be about to flip, sparking chaos and making large parts of the planet uninhabitable, it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}