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Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
NBC News ^

Posted on 04/16/2024 6:20:59 AM PDT by MNDude

Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time.

A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise.

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To: MNDude

And still, only 6.77 years left, give or take a minute.


101 posted on 04/16/2024 3:04:46 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

What is the density of the core of the Sun, where fusion is taking place?


102 posted on 04/16/2024 3:38:04 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: zeestephen

About 150, which took about 30 seconds to look up.


103 posted on 04/16/2024 3:39:59 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MNDude

CBS and NBC had better get together on their bullshit, the CBS article just above this one said that the Earth s spinning “FASTER” and we would have to adjust our clocks!

And here I always figured these asshats had better communications.


104 posted on 04/16/2024 4:12:21 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: zeestephen; HartleyMBaldwin

Sorry, should have typed ‘volume.’ But whether it is mass, volume, temperature, gravity, our orbit, the moon, and so forth we’re gonna die from global warming about when this decade is over. ;-)


105 posted on 04/16/2024 6:11:22 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: butlerweave
There’s no such thing as Time

There's no such thing as money, either, but everyone's shared cooperative suspension of disbelief concerning both is necessary for us to continue on as a civilization.

Now if I could harness nanoseconds like Richard Pryor did percentiles of pennies in the "Superman III" movie I'd have immortality and more than enough left over to sell to aging billionaires.

106 posted on 04/17/2024 12:49:38 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Listen to me now, think about it later and cry about it some other day. - Hans und Franz)
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To: DarthVader

Things happen so slowly that they do not register in our minds much.

Only by looking at the historical record can any trends be discovered.

And, when they are, like the multiple ice ages that have come and gone on Earth, the result is, to use a simple term - chaotic.


107 posted on 04/17/2024 4:33:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: goodnesswins

The real reason the Earth is slowing down is because of the Moon. The Moon’s gravity causes tides as the Earth spins below it. The drag of water causes the Earth to spin more slowly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration


108 posted on 04/17/2024 5:54:55 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Elsie

It’s an NWO scheme to take control nothing more.


109 posted on 04/17/2024 10:09:37 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Fai Mao

So you never seen an ice skater spinning ? bonehead


110 posted on 04/21/2024 6:45:25 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Wuli

Good catch. LOL.


111 posted on 04/22/2024 2:36:52 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: MNDude

U.S. Constitution

Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.

Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.

Article 3. The Congress shall set the maximum level of the oceans.

Article 4. The Congress shall set the miles per Kilowatt.

Article 5. The Congress shall set the rotational speed of the planet earth.

Article 6. The Congress shall set the size of The Ozone Hole.

Article 7. The Congress shall plug every methane gas leak on the planet earth.


112 posted on 04/22/2024 2:45:26 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Elsie

N.A.


113 posted on 04/22/2024 6:52:18 AM PDT by iamgalt
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