Thanks dude, thanks for the comment back! I can feel a cold coming now, but don't worry! We got a solar eclipse on Friday morning, and the aurora nearly made it to Devon last night :D

Imagine that: the oceans boiling off, and then freezing in the atmosphere. Wonder what's gona happen to the nuclear waste from Fukushima? I definetly don't want to get rained upon by big icicles! Especially ones that are loaded by nuclear waste. hahaah

Ok, so I also decided to look up the Earth's magnetic field strength: "Earth's magnetic field is fading. Today it is about 10 percent weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss started keeping tabs on it in 1845, scientists say." [link], and this is also consitent with other sources. From the same link we have "According to Earth's geologic record, our planet's magnetic field flips, on average, about once every 200,000 years. The time between reversals varies widely, however. The last time Earth's magnetic field flipped was about 780,000 years ago.", we are on average over due one! The other thing we know is "In order for a reversal to take place there must be a brief time during which the field is non existent." [link] Now we have no idea why the poles flip or by what mechanism these poles flip, so we can't predict the next one. Further more, from previously available information we think that these poles took a few thousand years to flip. However, from recent studies we think it could happen in less than 100 years [link]. We have no idea what goes on during the flip...

So don't worry, hold on to your pants, coz it's gona be interesting!
Man that video sums it up.... thanks dude!