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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.

1 posted on 12/12/2015 2:22:12 AM PST by Libloather
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If days are getting longer then nights are getting longer too, and that means more babies.


37 posted on 12/12/2015 4:01:58 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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"The impact of climate change may appear to be overwhelmingly negative..."

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????

40 posted on 12/12/2015 4:08:41 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Sell your television. Buy gold, silver, land, guns, and ammo.)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“”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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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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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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Strange. I was always taught the opposite, that the days were actually getting shorter due to the earth slowly being pulled into the sun. That is why the human body “evolved” for a 25 hour a day schedule while there are now only 24 hours.


61 posted on 12/12/2015 7:09:24 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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So the nights are getting shorter? Lol.

CC


62 posted on 12/12/2015 7:14:29 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: Libloather; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; KC_Lion
Spin rate science as demonstrated at Kruger Industrial Smoothing.


63 posted on 12/12/2015 7:19:22 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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Nice try but the moon has more effect on the earth than the glaciers, and as the moon gets farther and farther away every year it is causing the earth to slow down.

The Moon causes ocean tides on Earth to bulge towards it. However, the Earth is rotating faster than the Moon orbits so the tidal bulge swings ahead of the Moons pull. The gravity of this off center bulge pulls the Moon to a higher orbit and in the process slows the Earth’s rotation a little.

Another consequence of the Moon being farther away is that it takes longer to orbit the Earth; the lunar month becomes longer. In the future, the maximum length of the day will be reached when the Earth rotates at the same speed that the Moon orbits. In other words, the day and the lunar month will have the exact same length, somewhere near 47 of our present 24-hour days. At this point, since the tidal bulge will not be swinging ahead of the Moon’s orbit, the Moon will no longer be moving away but will remain in a stable orbit.
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65 posted on 12/12/2015 7:30:53 AM PST by timlilje
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The reduced mass of the glaciers is speeding up the planet rotation, but I guess the increased mass of all the new trees and people aren’t slowing the planet. As if glaciation is the only thing changing mass on earth.

Talk about cherry picking.


67 posted on 12/12/2015 8:49:46 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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seriously? Seems to that if you apply the same principles that make an ice skater spin faster as she draws her arms in, then you would conclude that the Earth would start rotating faster, if anything, because ice has more volume than the same mass of water, and a lot of the ice is on land and so above sea level. When it melts, the volume will shrink and the resulting water will move closer to the center of the Earth. In other words, the mass of the Earth will, if anything, move closer to the axis of rotation, meaning that like the ice skater, the Earth will rotate faster, not slower. If you buy into the nonsense that there is sufficient ice to materially alter the Earth’s rotational speed at all.


70 posted on 12/12/2015 9:25:48 AM PST by Oceander
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