Posted on 12/14/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
That totally 180 out of phase. If the weight moves from the mountains to the ocean that would speed the rotation not slow it. He said it in the explanation if a ice skater pulls in their arms and moves the mass closer to the axis she speeds up not slows down.
Idiot.
Does this mean at some point, we won’t need “Daylight Savings Time”????
Horse manure makes the grass grow green.
We don’t need it now.
Who needs daylight at 4:00 in the morning?
“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.”
Sounds like the guy is contradicting himself. If the water is melting and flowing closer to the center of the earth, instead of being stuck frozen far out and high up, the earth’s rotation should be speeding up. Like when a figure skater pulls her arms closer to her body during a spin, her rotation speeds up. The ice further away from the center of the earth would act like a engines governor, and without that governor, rotation speeds up.
Freaking scientifically illiterate morons have no conception of the scale of forces involved wrt the Earth’s rotation and movement in space.
Just plain stupid.
Is it the History Channel or National Geographic that has been running earth science programs lately?
I think Conservatives should leap to the front of the meme line and claim that “The Great Precession” occurred after 7 years of 0bama.
Sadly, not satire. And also sadly, many left idiots will believe it.
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000127% makes a huge difference.
Freakin moron.
Reuters and science?
Bwahahaha.
Perhaps ‘twould have been nice to mention that the earth’s rotation is slowing down due to another cause:earth-moon gravity coupling. Betcha the gravity is the prime cause, but considering a journalist’s typical D in high school science, do not expect this to be mentioned.
How DARE you contradict a HARVARD geophysicist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t you know the government....errrr....I mean, the University gives him good money to never be wrong...NEVER!!!!!(/sarc)
And they used to call it global cooling, then they called it global warming.
It seems their affinity to swing back and forth between the two extremes forced them to coin the term "climate change."
And you know what? They think that by hyping it all we will somehow jump on board and shell out the dough in order to fix the problem.
The real truth is that climate change is caused by the normal actions of the sun
I would like to see them try to change the actions of the sun.
Earth must have been really whizzing during the Ice Age ...
What’s that? Al Gore’s moon is moving further from Earth?
I actually saw someone arguing somewhere that the slowing of the Earth is causing global warming. See, the days are getting longer. That means MORE SUNLIGHT.
It seems like the days are getting shorter the older I get.
Damn! This means we’ll have to live with Barry’s reign longer than usual.
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