Hi, I'm new here, and you all seem very knowledgeable. I wanted to drop a question that's been bugging me for a time. Of all the climate change topics and various other things that seem to be affecting the Earth, I wanted to gather your take on what the potential dangers are or what danger swill there be when the Earth once again reverses it's magnetic poles.
I may be completely off-base here, and please correct me if I am, but it appears that the greatest threat (at least to humanity) when the changing of poles occurs is when they're in temporary equilibrium (there's neither a strong north or south pole for a time)... in which case there'll temporarily be no "magnetic shield" to fend off the majority of solar wind that comes our way. I distinctly remember a History channel show showing the essential effects of this if we were to receive a strong enough solar wind burst to "break" our magnetic shield. The described effects of this were essentially a quick and cancerous death by radiation. I understand that it being the History channel, it's probably sensationalized for ratings...but it intrigued me enough to bring it up here.
Anyway, felt like this would be a good shake-up topic from the majority of topics I've looked at here, hopefully I get some more qualified replies and answers than my own uneducated ideas : )