The north and the south poles swapping places

They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years and it has now been 780,000 years since the last one.

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Heres all the popular beliefs and why its not true: A pole reversal will happen in 2012. False, it will happen but we dont know when yet. Im pretty sure the NASA would be able to confirm if it was even a 2012 possibility. A pole reversal would decrease the strength of our magnetic field to near zero. False, it would still be there and as strong as it is now, just more complicated. A pole reversal would have terrible impact on our planet. True, but the process takes 5,000 years to complete. It doesnt happen just like that when you wake up one morning.