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Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble
yahoo ^ | Dec. 11, 2015 | Emily J. Gertz

Posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON

As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.

The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth's rotation, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.

"If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes--in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland--you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down," said Jerry Mitrovica, the study's lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change. "The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it's being redistributed unequally."

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Well, that explains my golf game.
1 posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Guam is going to tip over...


2 posted on 12/12/2015 2:48:41 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: PROCON

Yay-uh.

I always thought that, if they really trapped the tides for hydro power generation, it would put a drag on the earth-moon interaction and slow down the earth’s rotation... a wee bit.

Didn’t worry about it none, though.


3 posted on 12/12/2015 2:49:16 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Muslims Are Making the Earth Wobble

there fixed it


4 posted on 12/12/2015 2:49:22 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: PROCON

I do not believe these people have a very firm grasp of Newtonian physics.


5 posted on 12/12/2015 2:49:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens." -- Mark Levin)
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To: PROCON

—likely to make those islands turn over, too— as wss previously attributed to over-population by a member of Congress-


6 posted on 12/12/2015 2:50:01 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: PROCON

Well, it’s not like Jerry Mitrovica gets a paycheck from “global climate warming change”...


7 posted on 12/12/2015 2:50:01 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: PROCON

The earth wobble is really pushing the Chicken Littles off their rockers.


8 posted on 12/12/2015 2:51:11 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: bunkerhill7

Well when whitey riots, continents shake.


9 posted on 12/12/2015 2:51:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’m no science guy, but I smell BS all over this “study”.


10 posted on 12/12/2015 2:51:19 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
If we synchronized through Facebook & Twitter everyone in the world jumping into the air at the EXACT SAME TIME, I think that it would fix the wobble.
11 posted on 12/12/2015 2:52:13 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: PROCON

12 posted on 12/12/2015 2:53:21 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" 6Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: PROCON

I think if we built hundreds and thousands of galvanized go-fasters, and attached them to the equator in certain mass arrays, and fired them all at once, it might help.


13 posted on 12/12/2015 2:53:37 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: PROCON
That happens every time Algore rolls over in bed. Amazing how well he's eating now with that $500 million+ he pulled down with the AGW scam.
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14 posted on 12/12/2015 2:53:44 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE)
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To: PROCON

Nonsense.
A Year Without A Summer?
July 17, 2009 Posted by John at 9:09 PM
1816 was the “year without a summer.” There were several causes of the abnormally cold weather that year, as this source recounts:
The year 1816 is still known to scientists and historians as “eighteen hundred and froze to death” or the “year without a summer.” It was the locus of a period of natural ecological destruction not soon to be forgotten. During that year, the Northern Hemisphere was slammed with the effects of at least two abnormal but natural phenomena. These events were mysterious at the time, and even today they are not well understood.
First, 1816 marked the midpoint of one of the Sun’s extended periods of low magnetic activity, called the Dalton Minimum. This particular minimum lasted from about 1795 to the 1820s. It resembled the earlier Maunder Minimum (about 1645-1715) that was responsible for at least 70 years of abnormally cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere. The Maunder Minimum interval is sandwiched within an even better known cool period known as the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about the 14th through 19th centuries.
But the event that most severely shaped 1816’s cold phenomena was the cata-strophic eruption the previous year of Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, in modern-day Indonesia. The ash clouds and sulfur aerosols spewed by this volcano were widespread, chilling the climate of the Northern Hemisphere by blocking sunlight with gases and particles.
If this account is correct, the “year without a summer” played a role in the development of the American Midwest:
In 1816, it snowed in June in the United States and Europe. Crops failed, there was starvation, people lost their farms, and it touched off the wave of emigration that led to the settlement of what is now the American Midwest. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands more starved around the world.
New England and Europe were hit exceptionally hard. Snowfalls and frost occurred in June, July and August and all but the hardiest grains were destroyed. Destruction of the corn crop forced farmers to slaughter their animals. Soup kitchens were opened to feed the hungry. Sea ice migrated across Atlantic shipping lanes, and alpine glaciers advanced down mountain slopes to exceptionally low elevations.

I don’t think things are quite so bad this year, but if something doesn’t change pretty soon 2009 may go down in history, in some parts of the U.S. at least, as another year with barely any summer. Here in Minnesota and across the Midwest, temperatures are abnormally cold. I don’t know whether the phenomenon is world-wide—data that will answer this question have probably not been assembled, and may not be honestly reported—but the current low level of solar activity suggests that the cooling trend could indeed be universal.
Here in Minneapolis, the temperature never reached 70 degrees today—rather astonishing for the middle of July, our hottest month. Most days recently, it hasn’t been comfortable to be outdoors in the evening without a fire and a sweatshirt. It feels more like October than July. Thankfully, and unlike 1816, it hasn’t snowed; the worst consequence we fear is not getting any ripe tomatoes.
Today, walking down the street in downtown Minneapolis at 5:30, en route from my office to my parking ramp, I saw something I’ve never seen before: a man wearing a winter coat in July. Well, maybe not quite a winter coat, but definitely a fall/winter semi-parka with an unzipped, faux-fur lined hood. He was carrying a briefcase and looked like a businessman who was tired of being cold every time he went outdoors. In the summer.
I personally don’t think that we (all of humankind, let alone we Americans) can control the weather, but for those who do think we possess that Godlike power, here’s a request: can we turn the thermostat up a little?


15 posted on 12/12/2015 2:54:43 PM PST by Fungi
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Greenland will be GREEN...

Wasn't it green during the Vikings era? Or was it a scam?

16 posted on 12/12/2015 2:54:46 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: kiryandil

You sound like a scientist to me.


17 posted on 12/12/2015 2:56:09 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: PROCON

Anything to explain away the fact that leftists are drunken stumble-bums.


18 posted on 12/12/2015 2:57:14 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: PROCON

Everything causes global warming, AND global warming causes everything. Where do I get my grant money?


19 posted on 12/12/2015 2:57:21 PM PST by fhayek
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It would help if we chanted.

“Kumbayah” or “Black Lives Matter”. The exact words wouldn’t matter, it’s the thoughts that count.


20 posted on 12/12/2015 2:57:43 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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