Climate change means days are getting longer, scientists find

The Guardian ^ | 12/11/15 | Oliver Milman

[Libloather]

The impact of climate change may appear to be overwhelmingly negative but there is a bright spot for those who struggle to find enough time in the day: melting glaciers are causing the rotation of the Earth to slow thereby lengthening our days, new research has found.

Harvard University researchers have provided an answer to a long-held conundrum over how shrinking glaciers are affecting the rotation and axis of the Earth, calculating that the duration of a day has lengthened by a millisecond over the past 100 years.

The brakes will be more sharply applied to the Earth's rotation as glaciers melt at an ever faster rate, meaning that at least five milliseconds will be added to each day over the course of the 21st century. The axis of the Earth will shift too, with the north pole set to move position by about 1cm (o.4in) during this century.

[Libloather]

As land ice from the poles melts due to rising atmospheric temperatures, the shifting weight of water across the world should cause a change to the axis upon which the Earth spins, and a slight wobble in the rotation. Also, the added weight of water towards the equator will cause the Earth to slow, much in the way a spinning figure skater would slow if he or she reached their arms out away from their body.

There's a reason it's called science fiction. And the hoax deniers will eat it up.

[exnavy]

Unbelievable.

[4rcane]

co2 causing planet rotation to SLOW!!!!

[ronnie raygun]

Local weather posted the unusual temps 100 years ago on this day, didnt here anything about global warming back then! unrelenting scam artists

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

THE WIND TURBINES SPEED THE EARTH’S ROTATION SINCE THE GREAT MAJORITY OF WINDS FLOW FROM WEST TO EAST. THE RESISTANCE OF THE WIND TURBINE IS PROJECTED TO SUBTRACT THREE MICROSECONDS FROM EACH DAY IN A MILLION YEARS.

[TYVets]

calculating that the duration of a day has lengthened by a millisecond over the past 100 years.

In ten years the earth will darn near stop turning.

What BS

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Longer growing seasons! More crops at higher latitudes. Fewer people starving around the world! Longer strolls in the more balmy evenings!

What’s not to like about an extra millisecond of daylight?

[ichabod1]

Don’t worry, they had plenty of pseudoscience to go around back then too.

[smoothsailing]

the duration of a day has lengthened by a millisecond over the past 100 years

Bad news for vampires and lightbulbs.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

If everyone out west starts running east it will bring things up to speed again, until they all drown in the Atlantic anyway!

Maybe they should all bring surfboards.

[Libloather]

What's not to like about an extra millisecond of daylight?

Burns my grass.

[tet68]

Odd, around here the days are getting shorter,
either that or I’m getting longer.

[ETL]

"Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.

[snip]

"Everyone's God and if we don't wake up to that there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere," he said.

"The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won't have air to breathe".

Charles Manson breaks silence to warn of global warming
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8460868/Charles-Manson-breaks-silence-to-warn-of-global-warming.html

[ETL]

Bernie Sanders: Climate Change is Directly Related To Terrorism

by Michelle Fields
Nov 14, 2015

"In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism," said Sanders.

"And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see counties all over the world...they're going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops, and you're going to see all kinds of international conflict."

Sanders said at the second Democratic debate in Iowa that climate change poses the biggest threat to America's national security and to security of the world. ..."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/14/bernie-sanders-climate-change-directly-related-terrorism/

[Jimmy Valentine]

Wow. How do I get a cushy job with a fat paycheck on a gorgeous campus pushing stuff like this? Next we will hear that the Moon really is made of green cheese.

[ETL]

Odd, around here the days are getting shorter

On an optimistic note, in less than 10 days, the days will be begin to get longer, shortest day of the year being the Dec 21 winter solstice.

[Iron Munro]

[Big Giant Head]

Harvard University researchers

Higher education? Is marijuana legal there?

Mama don't let your kids grow up to attend college.

[Iron Munro]

Hottest temperature ever recorded in the USA was on July 10, 1913.

[DH]

There is no end to this pseudo science bullshit!

These PC geniuses are able to determine that the earth is slowing up 1 millisecond ( .0001 second ) per year? And IT IS DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING !