True Polar Wander — Secular Rate (Real Comparator)
mechanism
Earth's poles really do drift -- but at a crawl of about one degree every million years, nothing like a sudden reset.
Who they are
True Polar Wander at its normal (secular) rate, a real, documented geophysics phenomenon.
What they do
It's the slow rotation of the solid Earth relative to its spin axis, caused by mass slowly shifting inside the planet.
How it works
In the 20th century it moved at roughly 1 degree per million years (about 11 cm/year toward 70 degrees west), adding up to around 30 degrees over 200 million years.
Why it matters
It's the real-world comparison point: an actual phenomenon that plays out over millions of years, not on any human timescale -- so it can't explain sudden catastrophe claims.
The engine's record — word for word
True Polar Wander: slow rotation of the solid Earth relative to the spin axis from convective mass redistribution. 20th-century rate ~1 degree/Myr (~11 cm/yr) toward 70W; ~30 degrees total over 200 Myr. A real, documented phenomenon that operates over millions of years — not human-scale resets. [TIER GEOPHYSICS-PEER-REVIEW; Apex (c) real comparator] [Report #103 (ECDO)]
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