Earths magnetic pole is on the move

(news.Com.au) Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin its life blood rivers of molten iron pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras and keeps us alive. But according to the science journal Nature something strange is going on deep down below. Its causing the magnetic North Pole to skitter away from Canada towards Siberia. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the worlds geomagnetism experts into a rare move" Nature reports. On January 30 (delayed due to the US Government shutdown) the World Magnetic Model which governs modern navigation systems is due to undergo an urgent update. This model is a vital component of systems ranging from geopositioning systems used to navigate ships through to smartphone trackers and maps. The current model was expected to be valid until 2020. But the magnetic pole began to shift so quickly it was realised in 2018 that the model had to be fixed now. They realised that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable (safe) limit for navigational errors" Nature reports.