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 ...
Climate change also causes nose hair to grow three times faster.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Haha...hehe
Grasping at cataclysmic straws. The bright side, with less spin, less gravity, we will all be lighter and the obese problems will go away.
Mini ice age? Is it called winter?
Yes....come December 22, for some reason days will start to get longer. It’s coal I tells ya!
I propose a simple solution:
If all Liberals around the world would simply face east and open their mouths, the air rushing in to fill the vacuum (westward) would cause the Earth to slightly increase its spin, off-setting any rotation rate lost due to glacier-melt.
Where’s my grant?
If the earth movement is differing, it's a natural thing.....nothing to do with anything we're doing.
Climate Change™ is there anything it can’t do?
I wonder when Al Gore will use Manson as a reference point to add to his 99.7 scientific consensus...
Future generations will look back and wonder how a advanced highly intelligent people just sucked into this scam...
Make the AlGorians STFU ?
oh wow, I was wondering how the days got SHORTER in Revelation! Come to think of it, no wonder we are to pray the great trib doesn’t start in winter. Those short days will make it like Canada.
“Climate change also causes nose hair to grow three times faster.”
Explains Sander’s motivation...maybe Krusty’s as well...
You mix lots of .gov money and whores (er, “scientists”) and piles of propaganda is what you get.
We're doomed! Doomed, I tell ya!
“....OR THE TIRES GOING ROUND AND ROUND”
“Find a wheel and it goes round, round, round....”
As a teenager planning my first kiss of my girlfriend while sitting in the porch swing on a Spring evening, I would have argued with you about that.
“”calculating that the duration of a day has lengthened by a millisecond over the past 100 years.””
I noticed that - I was pleased to get more work done on one of those days....sho’ ‘nuff......
There are 3 separate orbital/rotational deviations. The shape of Earth's slightly elliptical orbit changes periodically. The tilt of the rotational axis changes periodically as well (it's currently at 23.5 degrees). Next, the direction that the rotational axis points...in relation to the Sun...changes periodically.
Great illustrations and deeper explanations here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/milankovitch_2.php
Somewhere down in their details is going to be a "need" to get rid of white peoples (excepting themselves, of course).
That is where I stopped.
One hundred years ago, the best time keeper was the railroad watch. A pocket watch.
That you had to WIND!!!!
Here we do with the “scientists” again. And from Haaahvaaahd no less, that well known paragon of technical prowess among U.S. universities. What an absolute load of political, religious and non-scientific BS.
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