Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble

yahoo ^ | Dec. 11, 2015 | Emily J. Gertz

[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."

[Sacajaweau]

Me, too. But it's getting expensive. I jump in the car everyday and do a little more shopping.

So weak am I. Climate warming has taken away my will power.

[B212]

The Chandler wobble is a small deviation in the Earth’s axis of rotation relative to the solid earth,[1] which was discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to change of about 9 metres (30 ft) in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth’s surface and has a period of 433 days.[2][3] This wobble, which is a nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of one year, so that the total polar motion varies with a period of about 7 years.

The Chandler wobble is an example of the kind of motion that can occur for a spinning object that is not a sphere; this is called a free nutation. Somewhat confusingly, the direction of the Earth’s spin axis relative to the stars also varies with different periods, and these motions—caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and Sun—are also called nutations, except for the slowest, which are precessions of the equinoxes.

[kiryandil]

The earth is always in a state of change. man has nothing to do with it, nor can man control it in any way, shape or form..

Yeah, well - go ahead & think that, oh ye of little faith.

Just wait'll we git after 'er with the old synchronization, and the chanting of "Kumbayah" or "Black Lives Matter" or "Abracadabra Snackbar". It's the chanting that's important [not impotent, because that's something different.].

We'll have that old wobble fixed up in a jiffy, you betcha.

[West Texas Chuck]

Man, Global Warming, is there nothing it can’t do?

Lots of rain - AGW
Droughts - AGW
Too much snow - AGW
All the snow melted - AGW
Bad hair day - AGW

I am going to do something about this global warming, I’m going to ignore it and hope the Hysterions are the first to be consumed by the rising oceans. And if that don’t work, I’m going to burn an extra tank of gas through my F250, every week, for all of 2016.

Hooray for Global Warming - unhinging the lefty libturds better than anything, with the possible exception of Donald Trump!

[Eccl 10:2]

On a larger scale, if there are too many people on the planet, it will sink out of orbit.

The science is settled.

[amorphous]

Actually, the world's wobble could lead to catastrophic consequences one day, like when a drunk gets behind the wheel of a car, and gets squished.

Now where can I get me some of those 100 Percent Whole Grain Baked Apple & Cinnamon Newtons???

Oh, before I forget :-)

[IronJack]

It’s not too hard to imagine these loons making the claim that global warming is literally causing the sky to fall.

[butlerweave]

The Crazies think they’ve won and are about to go Completely Crazy

[kiryandil]

I believe the tsunami in Indonesia made it wobble. Also, a couple bunker busters made it wobble.

Well, when that big forklift accidentally dropped the last two pallets of Fig Newtons on the planet, that caused a wobble, too.

You might not believe me, but it's right on Snopes.

[kiryandil]

On a larger scale, if there are too many people on the planet, it will sink out of orbit.

Stop it, yer killin me!

[kiryandil]

The Chandler wobble is a small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth,[1] which was discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to change of about 9 metres (30 ft) in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth's surface and has a period of 433 days.[2][3] This wobble, which is a nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of one year, so that the total polar motion varies with a period of about 7 years.

So, maybe we could get a really long cable and tie it or bolt it to something to hold Chandler Bing in place, so's it couldn't wander around and wobble and stuff.

[PROCON]

OMG, it's a CIRCLE!

A WOBBLING Circle!

[certrtwngnut]

I thought wobbles were for weebles.

[fhayek]

You haven't even scratched the surface. Depleting fish stocks, increased hurricanes (and, ironically enough, fewer hurricanes), more insect infestations, increased virulent disease, Islamic terrorism, food shortages, more wildlife encroachment, and who knows? More zombie invasions.

[Hot Tabasco]

Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble

I'm not taking credit for this study but I knew it all along........

[PROCON]

Well, weebles are cute and furry...

[fhayek]

Those aren't weebles, those are tribbles. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.

[jrd]

let’s see the earth spins like a top...most of the land mass in the northern hemisphere. we’ve had numerous earthquakes that up lifted the lad mass and several volcanoes that spewed out lava adding to this land mass this has change the tilt to somewhere around 23.5*plus some now the sun hits the earth at a different angle so it is not hotter in some place and colder in others...

[certrtwngnut]

All that money could be donated to FR. Then the dumba$$es heads would spin. But they would still wobble.

[windsorknot]

And so does the tail wag the dog.