Posted on 12/14/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, scientists said on Friday.
The driving force behind the modest but discernible changes in the Earth's rotation measured by satellites and astronomical methods is a global sea level rise fueled by an influx of meltwater into the oceans from glaciers, the researchers said.
"Because glaciers are at high latitudes, when they melt they redistribute water from these high latitudes towards lower latitudes, and like a figure skater who moves his or her arms away from their body, this acts to slow the rotation rate of the Earth," Harvard University geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica said.
The movement of ice and meltwater is also causing a slight migration of the Earth's axis, or north pole, in a phenomenon known as "polar wander," the researchers said.
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Hahahahaha! This is the best satire article I’ve seen in a long time! Hahahahahahahaha. By the way, the world is going crazy.
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image. Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw
linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014. REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters
Remember that all data proves global warming and every phenomenon in the known universe can be attributed to global warming.
The moon gradually moving further from the Earth has an effect on the slowing rotation also.
Perhaps Al Gore can start a new initiative to stop man-caused Moon movement.
I have been dragging all day.
Now I know why.
The day is evidently one thousandth of second longer over the course of the 20th century.
Send the muslims there. Muslim migration fixes everything doesn’t it?
They’ll never run out of Crazy
Here’s an alternative hypothesis: It caused by the do-nothing fat asses in Washington which has changed the weight distribution of the Earth.
So if the reverse happens, rotation should speed up.
And there’s a golden bridge in Arizona for sale, too.
Scientists have reliable data on the Earth's rotational speed, based on observations of the sun's position in the sky during solar eclipses, going back some 2,500 years. Although the rotational rate hasn't declined smoothly, over that period the average day has grown longer by between 15 millionths and 25 millionths of a second every year. Even at the faster rate, it will take 140 million years before the Earth's rotation slows enough to necessitate a 25-hour day.
Entropy had nothing to do with it, I swear!
LOL!!!!! They never give up with the lies, do they?
Cool. Longer days mean more time to get productive things done. And more time the navel gazers to do whatever the hell turns them on. And warmer days are nice too.
Figures.
'The Man' has me working longer days, every day (on the average)...
Dang. And I just ordered some fancy new swimming trunks.
So, wherever these glaciers are melting, the temperature is ABOVE 32 degrees F....
Great! Now my employer will expect me to put in extra time!
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