Posted on 12/12/2015 2:22:12 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Are you saying the wind causes the earth to spin?
This is so f*cking stupid. This has been known for a long time, not that any of the snowflakes would know this because they probably don’t teach it anymore.
I question the ability of anyone to measure a slowing of 1 millisecond in 100 years without uncertainty at least an order of magnitude larger.
This looks like garbage to me. I would expect the effect of melting glaciers to be far less than the effect of erosion of mountains, but in any case, I’d like to know how these researchers were able to isolate the effects of one from the other.
The bs gets deeper
That’s pure bull-ogna.
I firmly believe the earth’s rotation has been affected by the billions electric motors on earth...both big and small motors. Most electric motors spin in one/the same direction. The centrifugal force created by this spin has created an opposing force to the earth’s rotation. Eventually, the opposing, electric motor force will cause the earth’s rotation to reverse.
Don’t even get me started on car engines with their crankshafts and cams spinning. OR THE TIRES GOING ROUND AND ROUND.
Luckily, this here tinfoil hat keeps those centrifugal forces from affecting my brain.
Ahhhh. I see!
These researchers didn’t MEASURE the slowing. They CALCULATED it! LOL!!
I guess they have never heard of the GIGO Principle.
But the Earth has seen many ice ages in its long history. Does the Earth speed up, then slow down, in response to each episode? Also, they're predicting a mini ice-age in the next 15 years.
Earth heading for 'mini ice age' in just 15 years, scientists say
UPI ^ | Updated July 11, 2015 | Doug G. Ware
Solar scientists predict that the Earth will enter a "mini ice age" around 2030 due to decreased activity by the sun, which will bring with it frigid cold winters. The last time the Earth experienced a similar situation occurred between 1645 and 1715.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
It was discovered in 1928 that the Earth’s rotation was irregular. How much global warming induced glacier melt was experienced back then?
There is a difference between this “news report” and outright fiction. Fiction has to make sense, at least within the parameters of the story line.
This “report” follows no line of logic whatsoever. There is a branch of physics called thermodynamics, and another that includes the laws of inertia and motion. Somehow, these underlying axioms are discarded, and magic takes its place.
The big driver of climate “change” is not carbon dioxide, it is water vapor and its propensity to shift from an atmospheric gas, to ice crystals, and back to liquid water. Each of these shifts involved the addition and/or dissipation of a remarkable amount of heat energy. Carbon dioxide simply does not have this capability, nor is it in sufficient quantity to have a measurable effect on heat retention or dissipation across the face of the planet.
The planet Earth is a very large rotating mass, and minute changes in its nominal diameter, without corresponding changes of mass, has ZERO net effect in its inertia factor.
Ignorance at its finest. The last three BIG Earthquakes (Sumatra, Chile and Japan) sped up the rotation of the earth by a few milliseconds. So even if this was true, the length of the day is still shorter because of the earthquakes.
We’re also supposedly losing the Moon. It’s slowly drifting away from the Earth at the rate of about 2 inches per year. Without the Moon, the Earth would begin to wobble uncontrollably. Seasons would be chaotic. The Moon keeps our 23-1/2 degree rotational axis stable.
If days are getting longer at one point then at an opposite point nights are getting longer.
Isn't there some government program we can start, backed by legions of grant-dependent pseudo-scientists, to stop this?!
So molecular level changes in CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere will eventually cause changes in the earth’s rotation. Sure the science is settled on this one. However the media and global warming cultists will believe this as gospel.
If days are getting longer then nights are getting longer too, and that means more babies.
Vampires and Ladyhawks hardest hit.
Earth's days have been getting longer since the beginning as the moon pulls away from the earth (let me guess, climate change causes that as well). 620 million years ago, an earth day was 21.9 hours long. In the northern hemisphere, every June 21st is the longest day ever, longer than the previous, and this has been going on for as long as the geologic record can be studied.
Really? Really? We are ENJOYING the warmest December I can remember where I live. You can work outside comfortably, those with fall/winter gardens are enjoying it and heating bills are noticeably lower. Where are the freaking negatives????
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
