A recent Joe Rogan podcast has engender viral TikTok videos promoting a strange ( and false ) possibility aboutclimate change , first proposed in a Bible that also claimed that Jesus Christ lived in India for 18 year and was abduct by aliens follow his crucifixion .
In an episode released onJanuary 18 , theJoe Rogan Experiencefeatured an audience with YouTuber and " investigator " Jimmy Corsetti . Rogan brought up the " Adam and Eve possibility " , a groundless idea first outlined inThe Adam and Eve Story , a ledger indite in 1965 by Chan Thomas , an electrical applied scientist who also claimed to be psychical .
The book , released in part by theCIAin 2013 , claims that once every once in a while the Earth shifts in berth , causing a great cataclysm to its inhabitants , shifting full regions into a new posture . The disaster , according to the book , impinge on Noah as well as other old religious figures .
" It hap in cycles of 6,500 years and that it ’s a 90 - degree somerset , but six day later , around the seventh day , it corrects itself , " Corsetti explained to Rogan on the podcast , clear up that it would be “ a major planet flip , 90 grade , and that because of it the Earth essentially does a standstill , the sun will be direct – will basically rest in the same spot , have heating like we ’ve never experienced – and that the farting and the Ethel Waters continue with their impulse , because essentially the wind travel at approximately 1,000 miles an hour [ 1,609 kilometers an hour ] at the equator , so the theory is that when that case come about it ’s hold up to be cataclysmic . ”
Media Matters for Americahave identified clip from the consultation which have since get ahead over 20 million view on TikTok , without the added context of use that it is pure nonsense . Rogan bring magnetic poles into the discussion , speak about the possibleness of the poles switching at some point in the future and mesmerism were made that it could be more ruinous than scientists believe .
There is , of course , no grounds that the Earth duty period in stead every 6,500 years . If such a thing did happen , and total regions around the equator suddenly found themselves at the poles as they suggest , there would be a lot of evidence available .
“ That is total bogus . If that ’s what happened every 6,500 years , we would certainly see it ; it would be in all the records , " senior research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center , Martin Mlynczak , toldThe Verge . " The amount of energy to make for that about is tremendous . And you know , there ’s nothing to initiate it . "
Flips of the magnetized rod are real , however , and fall out once every200,000 to 300,000 year , although it is most probable around 800,000 years since the last time it happened .
There might beproblemsfor us , should the poles flip during our lifetimes . During the flip , for example , the Earth could be under increased exposure to radiation while the protective magnetic plain is watery , though this remains speculative . We could also be at more risk of solar flares with a de-escalate magnetic plain , which coulddisruptelectrical infrastructure , power grids , and satellites .
However , fossilevidencedoesn’t show any major extinction consequence do by the flips , nor does the geological record show any increase in action in the way of volcanic eruptions and earthquake . In fact , " there ’s no evidence that Earth ’s climate has been significantly impacted by the last three magnetic field excursion , nor by any excursion event within at least the last 2.8 million yr , " according toNASA .
Later during the podcast , Rogan talked about a potential pole shift – which according to all evidence will not be as catastrophic as the clime crisis – as possibly making clime change moot .
" It ’s not to say that we are n’t contaminate , we sure as shooting are , and it ’s not to say that we should n’t improve , we certainly should , but if the f***ing magnetized rod might careen and we might get impinge on by a giant rock from space , we might have bigger problems , " he said , according to Media Matters . " If we ’re going to be concentrating on trumpery , which is really par for the path with human beings , we ’re going to be concentrating on these things we ’re really not going to fix over the short - term , when something might happen that makes all of it a arguable decimal point . ”
Media Matters phone for TikTok to impose its climate misinformation insurance and remark how it permeate into other conspiracy theories , and for Spotify to consider whether platforming misinformation is " worth the profit " .
" While it was not written to ply an alternative account for clime change , The Adam and Eve Storyprovides a framework for interpreting its outcome outside of an anthropogenic explanation . This narration , which shifts blame aside from our fossil fuel saving onto world-wide forces beyond human control , can serve as climate misinformation , " Media Matters say .
" In the past , the Earth ’s orbit , the Sun , and cosmic rays have all similarly been used to provide alternative explanations for climate alteration , " they added . " There is overpowering scientific consensus that climate change is because of burning fossil fuels . The only way to avert increase societal , political , and ecological consequence of climate variety is by transition aside from a dodo fuel thriftiness . "
