The magnetic poles are rapidly shifting -usually, they only move about six miles a year. Now, the north pole is hiking about 30 miles every twelve months, and will soon drift out of Canada and into Siberia. If the poles flip, compass needles will point in the oppposite direction. Extra cosmic/solar radiation will bombard Earth, due to the holes in the magnetosphere. Cancers and mutations will likely increase, and telecommunications could be seriously disrupted.