So your source… And the one that got the most upvotes against a written article that is based on articles written by actual scientists… is TikTok ADHD girl who has what qualifications?
Cause you know… https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html which is linked in another comment around the same time this one was created… cites at least 3 separate people who claim that the data is sound.
Your girl even admits we know very little about the core of our planet itself and yet can resoundingly claim that she’s right?
Her qualifications:
- Produced 3 Vox science+politics explainer shows, including Emmy-nominated “Explained” on Netflix
- …and hosted 2 of those shows
- Selected by IBM to do an explainer on quantum computing
- Selected by Helion to do an explainer on fusion
- Selected by Argonne National Laboratory to cover a nuclear waste recycling program
If you watched the video and read the article, you know that what’s in dispute is not the data itself, but rather how it’s presented. In a Hermes Conrad, “technically correct” kind of way, the headline “the Earth’s core has stopped and may be reversing direction” is not objectively wrong, but it’s only true with respect to a reference frame that most laypeople would not immediately assume.
As demonstrated in the OP, most people when they hear “the core has stopped spinning”, assume that means relative to the Earth’s axis, which is not true. The core, along with the rest of the Earth, is still spinning around the axis just fine. The core is just doing it less quickly than the rest of the Earth now. Which is like… Did you even know that the core was previously spinning faster than the rest of the Earth?
So nothing related to earth sciences at all… Thanks! I’ll trust the people who are actually specialized scientists that are quoted in the article then.
