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Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation
Reuters on Yahoo News ^
| 12/14/15
| Will Dunham
Posted on 12/14/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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I thought I felt something wasn't quite right..
To: NormsRevenge
Hahahahaha! This is the best satire article I’ve seen in a long time! Hahahahahahahaha. By the way, the world is going crazy.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:21:31 PM PST
by
refreshed
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
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:21:32 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Remember that all data proves global warming and every phenomenon in the known universe can be attributed to global warming.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:21:59 PM PST
by
MeganC
(The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:22:15 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
To: NormsRevenge
I have been dragging all day.
Now I know why.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:22:42 PM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: NormsRevenge
The day is evidently one thousandth of second longer over the course of the 20th century.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:23:17 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: NormsRevenge
Send the muslims there. Muslim migration fixes everything doesn’t it?
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:23:41 PM PST
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: NormsRevenge
They’ll never run out of Crazy
To: NormsRevenge
Here’s an alternative hypothesis: It caused by the do-nothing fat asses in Washington which has changed the weight distribution of the Earth.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:24:45 PM PST
by
econjack
(I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
To: NormsRevenge
So if the reverse happens, rotation should speed up.
And there’s a golden bridge in Arizona for sale, too.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:25:29 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
To: butlerweave
The earth has been rotating slower and slower since it was formed. It will continue to do so until, well... until it stops rotating.
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.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:25:52 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
To: NormsRevenge
Entropy had nothing to do with it, I swear!
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:26:01 PM PST
by
Fhios
(How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
To: NormsRevenge
LOL!!!!! They never give up with the lies, do they?
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:27:34 PM PST
by
TwelveOfTwenty
(See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:28:14 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: C210N
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...Figures.
'The Man' has me working longer days, every day (on the average)...
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:28:40 PM PST
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
Dang. And I just ordered some fancy new swimming trunks.
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:29:25 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: All
So, wherever these glaciers are melting, the temperature is ABOVE 32 degrees F....
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posted on
12/14/2015 4:30:05 PM PST
by
Boonie
("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
To: NormsRevenge
Great! Now my employer will expect me to put in extra time!
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