Pole Shifts
There is some evidence that these occur every 20,000 or 30,000 years. The centres of the ice sheets during the various recent ice ages were not at the locations of the present poles. The centre of the northern ice sheet during the last age was in Hudson Bay in Canada. When the pole moved to its present location about 20,000 years ago the ice sheet rapidly melted but at the same time thousands and thousands of mammoth and other animals in Siberia were permanently frozen - with the remains of buttercups and other summer pasture plants still in their stomachs. This is because when Hudson Bay moved south, Siberia went north by the same amount.
There is other evidence - such as ancient maps that show Antarctica ice-free with rivers and mountains, and modern soundings through the ice show that the maps are quite accurate.
Although the continental drift theory has now become fully accepted and understood; the same is not true of the pole shift theory. Although there is evidence for it there is no well understood mechanism for it, and many people find it hard to believe it could really happen. A typical movement seems to be about a 1,000 miles in a matter of days.
It is fairly certain that the whole planet does not shift - just the thin outer skin, or crust, that we live on. The crust floats on a liquid interior, the core is molten metal hotter than the surface of the Sun (6,000°C) and on top of that there is a great depth of molten rock. The convection currents in the molten rock drive continental drift. If the Earth is hit by big enough objects from space the vibrations may liquidize a layer a few miles down in the crust so that it is able to slide freely over the interior. If this does happen then any area that was heavier than average would head towards the equator - because of the centrifugal force due to the rotation of the planet, which is quite fast - the speed at the equator is over 1,000 miles per hour. Heavy areas might be the Tibetan Plateau or the lopsided Antarctic ice sheet.
The effect at ground level will be severe in places. The movement will be more in some areas less in others - areas that move least will rotate rather than change latitude. Some areas may buckle or tear causing huge volcanoes. The sea will not move with the land but will slosh about causing huge tsunami and massive flooding.
If these events do follow large impacts there will also be serious effects on the climate plus the blast damage. The worst affected places will be those areas that become the new poles - as the mammoth example shows.
There is a mention of the Earth tilting in The Book of Enoch, in a short section written by Noah. This may be the only existing eye witness account of the shift that marked the end of the last ice age.
The magnetic poles sometimes reverse, the last time was 740,000 years ago, and there may be another reversal soon. The magnetic pole normally aligns with the rotation axis but may become chaotic during a reversal. This could have some consequences on the ground but it should be trivial compared to a shift in the rotation axis. See the link below.
The sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. The next one is due in 2012.
Links
Pole Shifts:
Hutton
Commentaries
http://www.huttoncommentaries.com/PSResearch/PS_Precursor/possible_precursor.htm
Pole
Shift News
http://wrightworld.net/poleshiftnews.htm
Apollonius.Net
- The Cosmic Tree
http://www.apollonius.net/cosmictree.html
Magnetic field reversals:
Earth
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=2297
Sun
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm?list151777
Bible Codes
In the sea; a shifting of the crust.
Groan of the Earth, but in the depths. - The mound of year 5768 (2008).
Groan of the Earth. - Law of the pole. - Rise in the west.
Rebelliousness of the sunrise.
2010 the calamity - an impact of a great rock - an oncoming of a mountain of rock
