Alien Pole Shifts: How Crustal Displacements Affect Evolution and Civilizations, for ETs and For Earth
Every once in a while, an idea which is normally forbidden to acknowledge or publish is worked into the public consciousness indirectly and passes under the radar. Authorities who would normally squash the attempt to publicize unwanted conclusions occasionally miss the threat to their official narrative when the authors present their case under a title that doesn’t trigger alarm bells.
In the case of aliens, consider this brief Valentines’ Day exchange in which a former U.S. president acknowledged that aliens do exist:
And instead of staying with that subject like it is the biggest story of the 21st century, they move on and ignore it after about ten seconds. Subtle. No headlines. Interesting.
In the case of pole shifts, one such article was published recently under the premise that polar wander affects surface conditions enough that it must be factored into any search for habitable exoplanets - whether we are looking for empty worlds to colonize or for alien civilizations to contact.
I found this paper by watching today’s video from Ben Davidson on Youtube’s SpaceWeatherNews channel - formerly Suspicious0bservers.
Early in the article, they argue that pole shifts/TPW [True Polar Wander] “can drive abrupt, global redistribution of ice and surface temperatures. Above certain thresholds of TPW, these changes can produce rapid climate transitions with major implications for biospheric stability, as has been reported for the case of the planet Earth. Although the link between TPW and specific extinction events on Earth remains debated, TPW is a plausible mechanism for large, rapid environmental change on habitable worlds. Our methodology is broadly applicable to planets that undergo TPW and yields testable predictions that might help prioritize observational targets in the search for life.”
A bit later, the article says: “Whether life exists on other planets remains an elusive problem in the fields of astrophysics and astrobiology. The intricate dependence of biological life on planetary conditions complicates the search for habitable planet candidates…” A simple analysis of a planet’s average climate conditions fails to consider that pole shifts cause catastrophic tsunamis and volcanic activity, and changes in latitude, elevation, and climate for individual points on the surface of a planet - during such an event mass extinctions will occur just from hot regions freezing and cold regions heating up - even though the planetary average may remain stable.“…Cooling at the equator and warming at the poles. These have important implications for biological life and its survival.”
Conclusions include: “Therefore, TPW affects the survival and flourishing of biological life… We have considered two fundamental mechanisms for polar wander: glaciations and mantle convection. These require the planet to have an atmosphere capable of supporting grounded ice formation and ablation and the presence of mantle flow, which might implicate a geodynamo (implying a fluid core capable of maintaining a planetary magnetic field). Hence, for planets with these conditions, it might be necessary to take into account the effect of TPW through the method we have developed.” [In other words, the problem of pole shifts causing extinctions or ending civilizations exists precisely on Earth-like planets - including Earth.]
“We show an example of the developed method for the Earth. The annual mean insolation is substantially altered, depending on both the azimuth and tilt of the TPW. For large TPW tilts, the Earth’s climate might transition into glaciations and snowball states. These have implications for the global mean temperature and therefore, the flourishing and survival of biological life. This example elucidates the potential of the method in determining the planet candidates for the search of life.”
Yes, because the paper was published to comment on the search for habitable exoplanets [wink wink] not to comment on the effect of pole shifts on Earth.
