SciencePolitician criticised over claim groundwater use could prevent Earth’s magnetic poles flipping

Northern Territory trade and business minister Robyn Cahill has been criticised for making scientifically inaccurate claims about groundwater and Earth’s magnetic field. Cahill said the territory needed to use groundwater to prevent the planet’s magnetic poles from flipping. She made the statement while discussing the government’s ambition to turn the Northern Territory into “the datacentre capital of the globe”. Experts challenged the scientific basis of the claim.

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