Years ago, some of us played with numbers to demonstrate that the earth’s rotational axis is shifting. We got the impression that the US Navy’s institution that keeps track of things like this were editing historical data to cover up the evident shift. Remember when the moon’s orbit got kind of crazy for a few years? Some of us saw the full moon rising directly south, for instance. Even the astrologers seemed to miss that and were still insisting on using the Navy’s predictions about the paths of lunar eclipses across the globe, then pontificating on that erroneous info
I think I’m onto something significant but un-mentioned, except on a couple of disinformation websites, including montalk.com. The funny thing is that I was the kid in class who could never figure out math puzzles
Well, this morning I was in a frivolous mood and used wunderground.com to look at sunrise and sunset times around the globe at certain latitudes. I wondered about approx. 50 degrees north. Paris gets 11:39 hours of sunlight, today; Vancouver gets 11:41; Ulaan Baatar gets 11:43. The net time difference is 8 minutes so it looks like the north axis is shifting away from Russia, now–how nice for them! Pole is going toward Canada, I think. It’s easy enough for anyone to check and nobody should entirely trust me with numbers. Daylight time per day, right now, gets longer as one approaches the rotational axis point. On the other side of June 21 the days start getting shorter in the north.
I keep a globe in the office because I love my country and my homeland (the world) so much. I also keep a big Atlas.
There aren’t three spots equidistant (that I can check on wunderground.com) at 50 degrees south, so I did 30 degrees: the fall equinox approaches, there and Maseru, Lesotho gets 12:22 hours of sunlight; Valparaiso, Chile, gets 12:25; Melbourne, Australia, gets 12:28. Net time difference is six minutes (compared to 8 minutes, 20 degrees nearer the axis–remember, days are longer or shorter approaching the pole, depending on the season) so this tallies with my notion that the north axis is moving toward Canada because the south axis is obviously moving toward Australia. It’s hard (at least for me) to visualize this without a globe.
To estimate approximate distance of the axis shift from the map’s north and south poles, which were not very far off from the rotational axis, not so long ago, I looked at daylight times along the same longitude, looking for a six minute difference to determine distance. The earth’s magnetic pole is obviously shifting in the other direction or close to it. That’s easy to check on updated aeronautical and nautical charts because they give you current compass corrections.
San Francisco, which is about 930 miles south of Vancouver, has 11:41 hours of sunlight, today, so the difference is 7 minutes, which seems to say that the rotational axis shifted toward Vancouver approx. that distance. I’ll check it all a year from today against the record in my book, then I’ll post again. I trust that the NSA/Navy sewer rats won’t be able to destroy this forum and most of its content between now and then
~Don