Scientists Say Global Warming Slows Earth's Spin

Duluth News Tribune ^ | 13 Feb 02 | Seth Borenstein

[cruiserman]

Are they still pushing that global warming BS?

[revtown]

Nice how they lump Lunar and global warming affects together to get 0.002 secs per year.
Its 0.0019983 for the lunar affects alone..

[DouglasKC]

Jared, the Subway guy, losing all that weight should offset the slowing down caused by global warming for the next 6 million years.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em boys!

[KC_for_Freedom]

Of course when all the icebergs melt from global warming the world will spin faster and we'll all float away.

If the Global Warming crowd would just do real physics, we could all at least argue with them. I did like the part about the wobble, LOL

[Dementon]

As the earth slows we all weigh more because of less centrifugal force.

That's a relief. I thought I was just getting fat.

[Jaded]

Stop it, I'm getting dizzy already.

[KSCITYBOY]

Let's see next it will be global warming makes men impotent. They are starting to use the same tactics on capitalism as they used on the cigarette industry -- blame everything on global warming - global warming gives women wrinkles and makes them fat, global warming increase the number of home runs hit in the majors, yada yada yada..... This get tiring after awhile.

[KSCITYBOY]

Longers days means more golf.....

[Liberal Classic]

Here's an answer to this question from the Ask the Astronomer website:

Q: What effect did the Moon have on the Earth during the first few billion years?

A: Apart from the initial formation event which was probably catastrophic and melted the Earth's surface, most of the effects upon the Earth have involved the tidal breaking of the Earth's rotation rate. Today, the Earth rotates once every 24 hours, but near the formation epoch, it may have rotated as fast as once every 10 hours. The gravitational tidal action of the Moon upon the Earth, and vice versa, has resulted in some of the tidal energy of the Moon being dissipated as the Moon deforms the Earth's surface. This causes the Moon to continuously spiral outward from the Earth as it attempts to conserve its angular momentum. One would imagine that during the first billion years, the Moon was causing significant crustal stresses upon the Earth which may have amplified continental drift and produced some very ugly earthquakes and volcanic activity.

[tsomer]

okay, let's get serious, because earth is in the balance.

The earth's slowing is causing gasses to collect thus increasing global warming.

It's like you and your buddies are coming from the taco bell and somebody emits a greenhouse gas just as you're coming up to a construction site and have to slow down. You all begin to experience the usual symptoms: nausea, headache, teary eyes. These symptoms persist because the vehicle is proceeding at a low rate of speed. Eventually you pass the construction site and are able to increase speed of the vehicle and, very important, dissipate the noxious fumes that have accumulated in the vehicle by means of increased air circulation. It is, my dear scientific brethern ( and sistern), increased circulation that provides the dissipation of greenhouse gasses and it's pleasant cooling effect.

Now 'scuze me while I get on with my own dissipat'n.

[Pablo64]

I can only see this as good news. If the earth slows down, that means that there will be less of a gravitational pull, which means that I will, in effect, weigh less! Screw the diet, let's just stop the earth!!! ;-)

[AndrewC]

My computer model says that if we lower these scientists down a really deep hole, we can neutralize the effect.

ROFLMAO! I love it. You must do science for a living, so rational. Actually this effect has resulted from the abolishing of Kings and Emperors (no more bowing and scraping).

[johniegrad]

okay, let's get serious, because earth is in the balance

How could you possibly consider that this has not been a serious thread?

[Dementon]

... your buddies are coming from the taco bell and somebody emits a greenhouse gas...

It is for this very reason that I can't go to Taco Bell any more. Those greenhouse gasses start building internally and soon there are some localized and very catastrophic climate changes.

[johniegrad]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFLMFBO**!!

Thanks for the link to this thread!

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