Originally Posted by
Rjk
this is hilarious, to think that anyone can pinpoint the earth's magnetic poles flipping to within a month or so.
they switch approximately every 200-300000 years, not 12 thousand years as you stated, and they don't really know how long the process takes, it could be thousands of years or very quickly.
there is little evidence of mass extinctions associated with pole changes in the past, so the apocalyptic predictions in your post are pretty unlikely