Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen. (More Climate Change BS)

Popular Mechanics ^ | November 15, 2025 | Popular Mechanics

[Mr. Blond]

Because all the fatties got their EBT back.

[sphinx]

Is it tilting left or tilting right?

We need to know this before we can decide whether to be alarmed.

[albie]

“Earth shoes”! lol! I haven’t heard of those in 40 years!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Problem is if Americans don't even remember 911, know nothing of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, or any history other than from Obama on, how can we expect them to know anything about the Chandler wobble?"

My bride, more well read than am I, has a favorite book to which she refers often. "The Dumbing Down of America." There are several on the theme, but the sense is obvious. A dumbed-down "electorate" is sought by those who would bamboozle, corral or stampede a people.

This is a reason I try to post links for others. I should have done that this time. Mea culpa.

[fruser1]

So, the pumped ground water just floats on top of everything for all time thereafter?

I notice that rain sorta seeps into the ground.

Wouldn’t water pumped up work the same, even if pumped from deep wells?

Yes, I believe it would.

Maybe these guys should look into continental uplift and tectonics.

[BigDaddyTX]

I’s habbening!!!! Anthropogenic Migratorial Global Tilt

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2407894/posts?page=32#32

[Peter ODonnell]

The wetter climate in the Sahara was not a result of change of earth’s axial tilt, it was caused by the Ice Age climate and its resulting equatorward shift of the jet streams, reducing the scope of subtropical highs and allowing occasional moist weather systems to occur in the Sahara. When the earth warmed after the last of the post-glacial oscillations, these moist systems became less and less frequent and the region turned from semi-arid to full desert like it is nowadays. There are always small shifts from century to century in the margins of the Sahara; a region known as the Sahel is nowadays the equivalent of that occasionally moist climate, and it abuts the Sahara on its southern margins. Lake Chad was once a lot larger than it is nowadays in part because the Sahel was moist and extended to its latitude (as an inland salt lake, Lake Chad receives most of its water from the southeast). Roughly the same process was occurring in the desert southwest region of the U.S. which was considerably moister in the glacial era. But the earth’s axial tilt undergoes some variation over time, it is not always 23.6 degrees as it is now, it varies from about 23.0 to 24.2 degrees over irregular cycles. A larger range is one of three orbital factors which can favor glacial expansion. This is because winters become more severe with even less solar heat reaching the higher latitudes. The other factors are timing of perihelion and orbital eccentricity. Larger eccentricity also favors glacial expansion. Our current perihelion date does not favor glacial expansion. Basically we hit least favorable peaks on all three cycles around 3000 BC and things have not moved much since then.

[faithhopecharity]

somehow 31 inches out of 1,577,756,569 inches around...
(Plus or minus since earth is not quite a perfect sphere)

somehow 31 inches wouldn’t alarm me (except perhaps in a sex ed class if he were seated to my rear)

just saying

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***the Earth’s tilt of roughly 31.5 inches***

Measure from where? The center of the earth? The poles? some place in space?

[Ronald77]

Ice caps getting heavier

[montag813]

I’m old.enough to remember when Popular Mechanics was about how shit worked, not Communist propaganda.

[sport]

Oh shit!

[Texas Eagle]

I had a feeling something wasn’t right.

[metmom]

Sure. Did the guys ever hear of the saying “Correlation does not imply causation”

[CodeToad]

We have nothing that can measure a 1/2” tilt.

[servo1969]

“The Earth’s polar circumference (the distance around the planet passing through the North and South Poles, also known as a meridional circumference) is approximately 40,008 kilometers (or about 24,860 miles).” - Grok

I think the Earth can do whatever it wants. I also think 31-1/2” ain’t much compared to 12,430 miles.
But I’m no scientist. (Or mathematician.)

[verum ago]

Yep.

Was just doing a little math myself... Put into different terms, Earth's tilt has changed by 0.0000040% per annum according to the article due to groundwater pumping.

The simple fact is, if you want to, you can calculate with great precision how much Earth's tilt would change simply by flying a single human being from one place to another.

Just because you can assign a number to it, doesn't mean it matters.

And in this case, I'm not exactly going to panic because one of Earth's rotational parameters has changed by 4 ten millionths of a percent when the planet's baseline calculated rate of orbital tilt (per annum) is a couple of orders of magnitude higher, per literally every source I can find.

Who cares..?

If someone said they repainted their vehicle and went from having 25.000000000 to 25.00000001 mpg, (a savings of approximately .03 cents per 100k miles @ $3.00 per gallon of gas), would you be astonished, or simply roll your eyes?

[faithhopecharity]

i would be astomished if painting your car improved its gas mileage

the added weight of the paint should require MORE gas to move you about, not less

but then again, its been awhile since I learned (?) my ‘rithmetic
https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/15-calvin-and-hobbes-30-9.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1

[frank ballenger]

Has Algore concurred?

Al's view of the big screen TV was blocked by trying to look past his huge belly as he lay in bed. He missed it.

[Maskot]

Yawn… if the “climate change ™️” gets me, then it does.