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Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping
UC San Diego ^ | 3/27/24 | Robert Monroe

Posted on 03/27/2024 2:10:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff

A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a paper published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature by Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and global warming is influencing when that problem might arrive.

Worldwide coordination of timekeeping is how all smartphones and computers can keep the same time. This timekeeping includes, every so often, an extra second, called a leap second, which makes a particular minute last for 61 seconds. Anyone who has forgotten the change to or from daylight saving time and found themselves an hour early (or late) the next morning knows how confusing it is to be out of sync with everyone else’s time.

The same thing can happen with leap seconds: if a computer network doesn’t know about them, it will become out of sync with everything else. For example, if an online store’s computer and your bank’s computer keep different times, clicking the “order” button will appear to create two actions at different times, not just one.

(Excerpt) Read more at scripps.ucsd.edu ...


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KEYWORDS: climatescam; gerbilsswarming; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarming; lajolla
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To: DallasBiff

The leap second has been (will be) depreciated and discontinued.

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Time is up for the leap second. Last week, an international coalition of scientists and government agencies voted to retire the dated timekeeping system, which will officially end in 2035.

The decision was made Nov. 18 during a general conference in France held by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the organization responsible for global timekeeping.

Similar to leap years, leap seconds are a measure of time that get added periodically to clocks to make up for the difference between astronomical time (Universal Time 1, or UT1), also known as the Earth’s rotation, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on the atomic clock.

https://www.livescience.com/goodbye-leap-second-2035


21 posted on 03/27/2024 3:35:07 PM PDT by garyb (What if you can't trust the voice in your head?)
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To: DallasBiff
"giving more time to prepare (perhaps by simply not having a negative leap second), is only a trivial benefit compared to massive problems from global warming"

This certainly leads to a great idea for reducing the federal budget: Cut all funding for the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, and other similar wastes of time and money.

22 posted on 03/27/2024 4:31:45 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage
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To: piytar

Well done. Interesting and quite telling that here, on our rather tiny but potent forum, there is more accurate scientific analysis presented on the CO2/climate issue than is coming from the vaunted institution of UC San Diego.

Sad that most of our universities have become cesspitts of propaganda.


23 posted on 03/27/2024 4:58:38 PM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasea)
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To: Blennos
Sad that most of our universities have become cesspitts of propaganda.

Well said. Agree 100%.

24 posted on 03/27/2024 5:13:04 PM PDT by piytar
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To: DallasBiff

According to the geological record, we are still in a relative cooling period, barely out of an ice age. There is NO Global Warming to speak of.


25 posted on 03/27/2024 5:52:32 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff

So, my cellphone is one minute different from my laptop. And my laptop is also one minute different from the office laptop.

How is this any concern to anyone other than those plotting trajectories or day-traders?


26 posted on 03/27/2024 6:19:59 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: DallasBiff; UMCRevMom@aol.com

Excuse me, but the premise is bunk that “global warming” is THE CULPRIT that upsets clock time.

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BEFORE “global warming,” the earth rotation varied in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”

AND, the earth rotation will continue to vary in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”

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The highest point on earth, is not Mt. Everest. The highest point is the top of some mountain along the equator - because the earth is fatter there - near the equator.

Not news, that the earth changes shape, has an axis of rotation that wobbles.

Not news, that the moon also does its own - variable thing.

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What may be news to a lot of people, is:

Water beneath the surface of the earth, moves around because of the gravity of the moon. One of the noticeable areas with that feature, is the western part of the Fertile Crescent - aka The Levant - the rough and mountainous terrain of Israel, Syria, southern Turkey.

The caverns and caves and underground aquafers contain water that is affected by the moon’s gravity.

So there are moments in the day, when water comes forth. A major source of some mysticisms, rumors, and stories of ancient times.


27 posted on 03/27/2024 6:35:34 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: DallasBiff; UMCRevMom@aol.com

U.S. Constitution

Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.

Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.

Article 3. The Congress shall set the maximum level of the oceans.

Article 4. The Congress shall set the miles per Kilowatt.

Article 5. The Congress shall set the rotational speed of the planet earth.


28 posted on 03/27/2024 6:39:34 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: DallasBiff

Our obsession with time is probably one of the things that God laughs at the most.


29 posted on 03/27/2024 7:08:50 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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