Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chandlerswobble; chandlerwobble; climatechange; demagogicparty; emilyjgertz; epa; erf; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; junkscience; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; poleshift; popefrancis; romancatholicism; wobble
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-130 next last
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.

41 posted on 12/12/2015 3:09:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

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 motions—caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and Sun—are also called nutations, except for the slowest, which are precessions of the equinoxes.


42 posted on 12/12/2015 3:09:57 PM PST by B212
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

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.

43 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

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!


44 posted on 12/12/2015 3:12:49 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.


45 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

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 :-)


46 posted on 12/12/2015 3:15:00 PM PST by amorphous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

It’s not too hard to imagine these loons making the claim that global warming is literally causing the sky to fall.


47 posted on 12/12/2015 3:15:18 PM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

The Crazies think they’ve won and are about to go Completely Crazy


48 posted on 12/12/2015 3:15:47 PM PST by butlerweave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.

49 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

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!

50 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

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.

51 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: amorphous
OMG, it's a CIRCLE!

A WOBBLING Circle!

52 posted on 12/12/2015 3:21:40 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

I thought wobbles were for weebles.


53 posted on 12/12/2015 3:21:40 PM PST by certrtwngnut (Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.
54 posted on 12/12/2015 3:22:09 PM PST by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble

I'm not taking credit for this study but I knew it all along........

55 posted on 12/12/2015 3:24:05 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: certrtwngnut
Well, weebles are cute and furry...


56 posted on 12/12/2015 3:24:33 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
Those aren't weebles, those are tribbles. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
57 posted on 12/12/2015 3:26:10 PM PST by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

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...


58 posted on 12/12/2015 3:27:13 PM PST by jrd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

All that money could be donated to FR. Then the dumba$$es heads would spin. But they would still wobble.


59 posted on 12/12/2015 3:27:40 PM PST by certrtwngnut (Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

And so does the tail wag the dog.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 3:29:11 PM PST by windsorknot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-130 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson