[Note: I may have to start a series of "No, a blank won't blank" posts; there's been a spate of nonsensical doomsday pseudoscience lately. Sigh.]
So the latest doomsday fearmongering I'm hearing about are global superstorms caused by dangerous shifts in the Earth's magnetic field. Maybe you've heard: the Earth's magnetic field is wandering around, and may be about to reverse. When this happens, incoming radiation will affect our weather, causing gigantic storms the likes of which have never been seen except in Hollywood movies. Panic! Death! Higher gas prices! Cats and dogs, living together! Yeah, right. I'll be up front right away: this claim is baloney. Garbage. Nonsense. The article in question is pretty long, and as usual debunking something takes more time and effort than it does to simply say wrong things. So for the TL;DR (too long; didn't read) crowd: the article makes basic science errors, attempts ...
