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Climate change means days are getting longer, scientists find
The Guardian ^ | 12/11/15 | Oliver Milman

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; earthrotation; globalwarming; hoax; scientists
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To: Libloather

Climate change also causes nose hair to grow three times faster.


41 posted on 12/12/2015 4:08:51 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Libloather

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.


42 posted on 12/12/2015 4:18:05 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ETL

Mini ice age? Is it called winter?


43 posted on 12/12/2015 4:23:23 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Libloather

Yes....come December 22, for some reason days will start to get longer. It’s coal I tells ya!


44 posted on 12/12/2015 4:36:48 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .c)
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To: Libloather

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?


45 posted on 12/12/2015 4:39:36 AM PST by Egon (RIP, Harold Ramis. The world is less funny with your loss.)
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To: Libloather
How much does this guy make to produce this made up crap.

If the earth movement is differing, it's a natural thing.....nothing to do with anything we're doing.

46 posted on 12/12/2015 4:52:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

Climate Change™ is there anything it can’t do?


47 posted on 12/12/2015 4:54:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ETL
LOL...

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...

48 posted on 12/12/2015 5:08:56 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: central_va
Climate Change™ is there anything it can’t do?

Make the AlGorians STFU ?

49 posted on 12/12/2015 5:09:18 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Libloather

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.


50 posted on 12/12/2015 5:14:38 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: TigersEye

“Climate change also causes nose hair to grow three times faster.”

Explains Sander’s motivation...maybe Krusty’s as well...


51 posted on 12/12/2015 5:20:59 AM PST by sayfer bullets (I didnt leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Libloather

You mix lots of .gov money and whores (er, “scientists”) and piles of propaganda is what you get.


52 posted on 12/12/2015 5:32:27 AM PST by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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To: Libloather
Gosh, in 100,000 years, a day will be a whole second longer.

We're doomed! Doomed, I tell ya!

53 posted on 12/12/2015 6:05:19 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: moovova

“....OR THE TIRES GOING ROUND AND ROUND”

“Find a wheel and it goes round, round, round....”


54 posted on 12/12/2015 6:08:45 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
What's not to like about an extra millisecond of daylight?

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.

55 posted on 12/12/2015 6:12:01 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Libloather

“”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......


56 posted on 12/12/2015 6:24:49 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Yo-Yo
It was discovered in 1928 that the Earth's rotation was irregular.

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

57 posted on 12/12/2015 6:30:38 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Libloather
Harvard University researchers have ... whatever.

Somewhere down in their details is going to be a "need" to get rid of white peoples (excepting themselves, of course).

58 posted on 12/12/2015 6:40:01 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: exnavy
One millisecond over 100 years.

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!!!!

59 posted on 12/12/2015 6:41:28 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Libloather

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.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 6:47:05 AM PST by MCH
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