Geomagnetic reversal theory of global warming – an alternative view

Traditionally global warming theory goes like this. We are releasing huge quantities of carbon dioxide that was locked underground in oil, gas and coal, by burning it to create energy. The additional carbon dioxide is more than the normal mechanisms of nature can process, so it stays in the atmosphere and acts as insulation stopping heat escaping so the planet warms up. 

There seems no doubt that the planet is warming up, but there are other reasons advanced by some scientists to explain climate change and one of the most interesting is that put forward by Keith Foster. It is a radical theory but one which regards human made carbon dioxide emissions as exacerbating the effect of the movements in the earth’s geomagnetic field. Wow, that’s a mouthful.  Mr Foster is an expert on path curve vortex energy systems. His work has led to a better understanding of how the Universe organises itself. Here is what I think Keith Foster’s theory is about. I hope that physicists will forgive me for the inevitable simplifications that I must make in order to understand it myself. 

The earth is flat at the poles and bulges at the equator – an oblate spheroid. The moon pulls the axis slightly, making a tilt which we experience as seasons. As the earth spins it wobbles slightly. This means that true north and true south at different places from magnetic north and magnetic south.  

The wobble of the earth at it spins causes ice to build up at the south pole with a corresponding reduction at the North Pole, as the planet seeks to get a stable centre for it gyroscopic spinning. The South Pole has for hundreds of thousands of years been getting more ice as a result, but the ice is not distributed symmetrically.

The ice is deposited there as a result of magnetic activity which increases the permittivity of water making it freeze more easily. The asymmetric variation in ice deposits causes a centrifugal momentum which is transferred to the earth’s rigid crust. This causes tension which results in increased volcanic activity. The tension also causes ice to melt.   

The sun gets in on the act. As the polarity of the sun’s main field reverses its electrical field reverses and this causes a reversal in the earth’s magnetic field. There is a similarity to Hertz’s experiment which shows a magnetic field getting stronger, disappearing and then reversing itself. 

So the earth’s polarity is reversing.  Ice at the South Pole was formed by a strong magnetic field and as the field weakens ice melts. The effect of the reversal on the earth’s climate is to release it and the climate warms up.

The earth then has its balance altered and as the magnetic poles reverse a new cycle begins and as the magnetic fields regain their strength after reversal the ice starts building up again and the temperatures cool down. 

In this way, the reversal of the polarity causes catastrophic climate change and there is nothing that we can do about it.

Mr Foster thinks that things like deforestation, excessive carbon imbalance caused by humans and pollution add to the problem but they are not the cause of the problem. 

I suppose that Mr Foster thinks that we are a bit like sailors sailing in a sinking ship. Some time over the next hundred or so thousand years the ship will sink (and eventually resurface) but what we are doing is drilling holes beneath the waterline to make it sink more quickly. 

So, if you do not accept the traditional theory of human made carbon emissions causing climate change, you might be interested in the physics of Keith Foster which gives you another theory to think about.