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JustAPerspective t1_j63vlzi wrote

Reply to comment by oalfonso in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6

Magnetic North has been wandering around a lot the last decade or so. Might be related, though doubt it's causal.

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DidaskolosHermeticon t1_j642m63 wrote

It's got to be related. I'm very much not any kind of expert; but the Magnetosphere is generated by the motion of the liquid iron core, the North Pole is determined by the geometry of that motion relative to the surface, and we are measuring these processes in tandem. There may be a black-box of complex math between these two things, but I feel like it's certain they are related.

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JustAPerspective t1_j64obtr wrote

It's easy to be confident when there's limited information available.

While what you're saying is highly probable based on our current understanding, these two phenomena may be related - it is not absolute. Assumption precludes, and oft forgets, discovery.

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