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Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble
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| Dec. 11, 2015
| Emily J. Gertz
Posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON
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To: cripplecreek
Me, too. But it's getting expensive. I jump in the car everyday and do a little more shopping.
So weak am I. Climate warming has taken away my will power.
To: kiryandil
The Chandler wobble is a small deviation in the Earth’s axis of rotation relative to the solid earth,[1] which was discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to change of about 9 metres (30 ft) in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth’s surface and has a period of 433 days.[2][3] This wobble, which is a nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of one year, so that the total polar motion varies with a period of about 7 years.
The Chandler wobble is an example of the kind of motion that can occur for a spinning object that is not a sphere; this is called a free nutation. Somewhat confusingly, the direction of the Earth’s spin axis relative to the stars also varies with different periods, and these motionsâcaused by the tidal forces of the Moon and Sunâare also called nutations, except for the slowest, which are precessions of the equinoxes.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:09:57 PM PST
by
B212
To: Cold Heat; Pearls Before Swine
The earth is always in a state of change. man has nothing to do with it, nor can man control it in any way, shape or form.. Yeah, well - go ahead & think that, oh ye of little faith.
Just wait'll we git after 'er with the old synchronization, and the chanting of "Kumbayah" or "Black Lives Matter" or "Abracadabra Snackbar". It's the chanting that's important [not impotent, because that's something different.].
We'll have that old wobble fixed up in a jiffy, you betcha.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:11:08 PM PST
by
kiryandil
("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
To: PROCON
Man, Global Warming, is there nothing it can’t do?
Lots of rain - AGW
Droughts - AGW
Too much snow - AGW
All the snow melted - AGW
Bad hair day - AGW
I am going to do something about this global warming, I’m going to ignore it and hope the Hysterions are the first to be consumed by the rising oceans. And if that don’t work, I’m going to burn an extra tank of gas through my F250, every week, for all of 2016.
Hooray for Global Warming - unhinging the lefty libturds better than anything, with the possible exception of Donald Trump!
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:12:49 PM PST
by
West Texas Chuck
(OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
To: kiryandil
On a larger scale, if there are too many people on the planet, it will sink out of orbit.
The science is settled.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:14:15 PM PST
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: alloysteel
Actually, the world's wobble could lead to catastrophic consequences one day, like when a drunk gets behind the wheel of a car, and gets squished.
Now where can I get me some of those 100 Percent Whole Grain Baked Apple & Cinnamon Newtons???
Oh, before I forget :-)
To: PROCON
It’s not too hard to imagine these loons making the claim that global warming is literally causing the sky to fall.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:15:18 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: PROCON
The Crazies think they’ve won and are about to go Completely Crazy
To: Sacajaweau; alloysteel
I believe the tsunami in Indonesia made it wobble. Also, a couple bunker busters made it wobble. Well, when that big forklift accidentally dropped the last two pallets of Fig Newtons on the planet, that caused a wobble, too.
You might not believe me, but it's right on Snopes.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:16:16 PM PST
by
kiryandil
("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
To: Eccl 10:2
On a larger scale, if there are too many people on the planet, it will sink out of orbit. Stop it, yer killin me!
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:17:22 PM PST
by
kiryandil
("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
To: B212
The Chandler wobble is a small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth,[1] which was discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to change of about 9 metres (30 ft) in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth's surface and has a period of 433 days.[2][3] This wobble, which is a nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of one year, so that the total polar motion varies with a period of about 7 years. So, maybe we could get a really long cable and tie it or bolt it to something to hold Chandler Bing in place, so's it couldn't wander around and wobble and stuff.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:21:23 PM PST
by
kiryandil
("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
To: amorphous
OMG, it's a CIRCLE!
A WOBBLING Circle!
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:21:40 PM PST
by
PROCON
(It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
To: PROCON
I thought wobbles were for weebles.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:21:40 PM PST
by
certrtwngnut
(Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
To: West Texas Chuck
You haven't even scratched the surface. Depleting fish stocks, increased hurricanes (and, ironically enough, fewer hurricanes), more insect infestations, increased virulent disease, Islamic terrorism, food shortages, more wildlife encroachment, and who knows? More zombie invasions.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:22:09 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: PROCON
Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble
I'm not taking credit for this study but I knew it all along........
To: certrtwngnut
Well, weebles are cute and furry...
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:24:33 PM PST
by
PROCON
(It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
To: PROCON
Those aren't weebles, those are tribbles. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:26:10 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: kiryandil
let’s see the earth spins like a top...most of the land mass in the northern hemisphere. we’ve had numerous earthquakes that up lifted the lad mass and several volcanoes that spewed out lava adding to this land mass this has change the tilt to somewhere around 23.5*plus some now the sun hits the earth at a different angle so it is not hotter in some place and colder in others...
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:27:13 PM PST
by
jrd
To: kiryandil
All that money could be donated to FR. Then the dumba$$es heads would spin. But they would still wobble.
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posted on
12/12/2015 3:27:40 PM PST
by
certrtwngnut
(Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
To: PROCON
And so does the tail wag the dog.
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