Posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON
As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.
The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth's rotation, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
"If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes--in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland--you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down," said Jerry Mitrovica, the study's lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change. "The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it's being redistributed unequally."
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And, as the rotation slows, will we be able to bounce like we're on the moon?
Global Warming PING!
Global Warming scam makes Bernie Madoff look like a piker!
I thought that the kaijus hid in the trenches.
(GODZIRRA!!!)
What a load.
Beginning with the mantel, the earth’s core is surprisingly deep. Land and sea merely glide around it like toothpaste on teeth.
I always knew they were a bunch of Bolsheviks
Yuk it up, Jack, but the sky IS falling! Everyone knows that Global Warming makes it colder, until the sky shatters and falls. Every time I step out the door, cold, white chunks of it smack me in the head and shoulders.
I suppose you’ll just try to claim it’s angels brushing dandruff out of their hair.
NOT true! The earth is wobbly because of Roseanne Barr, and Rosie O’Donnell. Two roses did us in. No known cure.
“Sea Level Rising Is Total Fraud”
You’ll bookmark this one:
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
So this is the next lie to try to steal more money over..
Give up more of your freedoms and money. We have to stop the earf from wobbling!
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