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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Boy, you don't know ANYTHING [you know nothing, Jon Snow].
Remember how all the heat sank to the bottom of the ocean and is hiding there with the coelacanths and REALLY BIG squids, and stuff?
Well, the hurricanes are hiding there, too. They're all parked in a row in the Romanche Trench in the Atlantic Ocean. There's some parked in the Puerto Rico Trench, too. Those are the late-season hurricanes that wouldn't fit in the other trenches.
Almost certainly true, the lagging response of ocean tides is the primary cause of moon-dragging causing the earth to slow down (about 0.002 seconds per day per century) and the moon to move into a higher orbit (about a 3.8 cm per year.)
They look kind of dangerous, as a matter of fact.
I would google the weeble, but I can’t get past the ogle the Google.
I distinctly remember you thinking that quite a while back.
LONG before this Johnny-Come-Lately finally got around to verifying your thoughts.
If you laid all the people in China end to end around the world, 70% of them would drown.
Is that close to the congressmans claim that if you all move to one side of an island it will tip and sink?
[[Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels]]
Well gee aren’t they brilliant? Did they figure this out all by themselves? Or dd they create an algorithm to figure it out?
I don't even remember what the my point was anymore.
I guess getting laid before you drown isn't the worst way to check out...
Sorry but you remember wrong. That particular thread was about "wobble butts" and spandex in WalMart..........
Obviously this wasn’t written for thinking people. It is processed slop to keep the rabid left fed.
As Arctic and Antarctic ice fields continue to expand, expect to see more of this brain rot.
That must be news to figure skaters who squat to increase the speed of their spins...
Actually, they had a really old copy of WordPerfect that they weren't using to create type-written Air Force documents for Dan Rather anymore.
Turns out that it had a function key that does meltwater calculations. Slicker than snot.
Greenland will be GREEN...
Wasn’t it green during the Vikings era? Or was it a scam?
Realtors were just trying to sell real estate to gullible Norwegians.
OMG. Now I have heard everything. The Left now officially believes that a person that floats is a witch.
I do admit to being somewhat distracted by the "wobble butts" and spandex...
A study is needed to determine the extent of the offset of the effects of this wobble achievable by the consumption of water by the earth’s human population, interim bladder containment time capabilities, followed by a combined release in the as yet to be determined appropriate direction to serve as a counter measure. Beuller? Anyone?
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