Posted on 12/14/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Because 'global warming' increases violent human behavior, it will make hockey players angrier, and trigger an endless forcing feedback effect that will melt the entire rink. This will make angry fans riot and set cars on fire globally, thus exacerbating the 'global warming' effect.
OK, now where's my $2,000,000 research grant?
Oceans make up 0.022 percent of the earth’s mass.
http://see-the-sea.org/facts/facts-body.htm
The average ocean depth is 12,460 feet.
So if the oceans rose 8 inches in the last 145 years (per Wikipedia), I could roughly guess the volume and mass of water increased by 0.66 feet/12,460 feet or 0.0053 percent.
Or the mass of the oceans is now 0.02212 percent of the planet’s mass...the extra 0.00012 percent being evenly distributed from the poles to the equator.
Seems like the bulk of the planet’s mass is all that ROCK its made of, so frankly, I don’t believe this.
Not to worry. The movement of muslims from the middle east into Northern countries of Europe and North America is counter-acting the "polar wander". No rotational slowing to worry about. See, the muslims are good for something (we should drop them on the North Pole for maximum effect).
Overall, the story sounds like global-warming doomspeak. But the Harvard guy didn't actually get this part wrong. He said the water flows from higher to lower latitudes (i.e. away from the poles toward the equator), not altitudes.
Assuming that's the case, then yes, some of the Earth's mass is moving farther away from the axis of rotation, and the earth's rotation would slow down, however minutely, because of conservation of angular momentum.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake shifted enough mass to shorten the day by a few microseconds. Theoretically, enough water flowing from the poles toward the equator could slow the earth, but I don't know whether the actual amount of melting ice would result in significant change. The major cause of the earth's slowing rotation is the moon.
Did the ice ages make the earth’s rotation faster?
We must have had very short days a few years back when Chicago was under two miles of ice.
I live in an area in Wisconsin that once was covered with ice. Days are still 24 hours. Pure rubbish.
Well that’s no fun!
Does this mean the earth rotated much faster during the ice age?
Wow - this guy scored some of the good stuff before he came up with this bs.
You mean this is not CATASTROPHISM?
Hey, good idea. I’m not sure this is the first topic about this. :’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371657/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3371858/posts
interesting sidebar from the FRchives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1772866/posts
My old stomping ground in central Minniesoda is full of lakes and hills,, also the results of glacial sheets,, hugh ones.
In the summer, the days were never long enough to get all the farm work done. In the winters, ice fishing filled the gaps. A crappie existence. ;-)
Its where all the dinosaurs went,, they got flung off into space..
Using the convoluted logic from the article...during the last ice age, did the Earth rotate on its axis faster? And what were the consequences? How much slower did Earth rotate during the Cretaceous period when there had to be a dearth of glacial ice?
What are the consequences of a slower rotating Earth anyway?
I hate these 30 hour days.
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