North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer… • Shift in Magnetic North
Pole Causes Tampa Airport to Close Runway. As we’ve noted
before, the magnetic North Pole—the spot toward which compasses
point—moves. Compass needles in Africa have been shifting by
about one degree per decade over the last century. Magnetic
north is currently (I’m eyeballing this from a map) in the
Arctic Ocean north of Canada’s Yukon Territories, moving about
40 miles a year toward Russia. This has caused the Tampa airport
to close its main runway to update the navigational information
painted on the runway. The bigger question: Why only Tampa? •
More Mass Bird Die-offs. On top of the 5,000 red-winged
blackbirds that died and fell from the sky in Arkansas on New
Year’s Eve, hundreds of birds (a variety of species) have been
found dead in Louisiana and hundreds (maybe thousands) of turtle
doves have been found dead in Italy. As I mentioned on Facebook
earlier this week, one theory for the Arkansas bird deaths is
that fireworks scared and disor