The Associated Press is reporting that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening and it could disappear in 1,500 to 2,000 years leaving compasses worldwide useless. Scientists also say the poles could then flip, making the compasses not useless, but wrong nonetheless, causing them to point south.

This is certainly troubling, and I'm sure that industrialization is the cause of this, because all change that takes place on the Earth is a result of human action (or inaction).

If President Bush hadn't have backed out of the Kyoto Treaty, this wouldn't have happened.