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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

“””The author of the study, Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, said that as ice at the poles melts, it changes where the Earth’s mass is concentrated. The change, in turn, affects the planet’s angular velocity.”””


The past four years have been a bonanza for people like Duncan Agnew as Biden has been handing out grant money to the climate porn actors like it was Halloween.


21 posted on 04/16/2024 6:39:10 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MNDude

The Sun is about 1,000,000,000 times the Earth’s mass and being a nuclear furnace would not have anything to do with it. /s


22 posted on 04/16/2024 6:39:50 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: MNDude
Well, which is it?

These two stories were published on the same exact day — one from NBC News and the other from CBS News.

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https://notthebee.com/article/cbs-news-and-nbc-news-published-these-two-stories-on-the-same-day-a-few-weeks-ago

23 posted on 04/16/2024 6:42:06 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: DarthVader

“Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation”

Wow, that is BS on another level


24 posted on 04/16/2024 6:43:48 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: MNDude

Talk about solid bull feces! Approx. 5 articles obove THIS one on THIS page, an article states that the earth is beginning to spin FASTER, and that by 2029 it may be necessary to subtract one second from the world’s timeclock. Fortunately, my schedule is not tight enough to be affected, whichever one is correct. I’d hazard a wager that they are BOTH blatant lies!


25 posted on 04/16/2024 6:44:11 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: sjmjax

Took 15 posts for someone to point this out. Thank you. Trust the science, right? What a joke.


26 posted on 04/16/2024 6:44:28 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: MNDude

Ludacris, the mass stays the same. there is no propulsive or braking power


27 posted on 04/16/2024 6:44:55 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: sjmjax

Exactly, CNN article posted just last month says the opposite but still blames global warming (aka climate change).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/climate/timekeeping-polar-ice-melt-earth-rotation/index.html

At least in the past when they were going to contradict themselves, it took years, now it is weeks.


28 posted on 04/16/2024 6:47:53 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: MNDude

So full of cr**...


29 posted on 04/16/2024 6:50:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MNDude
They forgot to read this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spinning-time-second-removed-world-clocks/

Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

30 posted on 04/16/2024 6:50:22 AM PDT by G Larry (Biden Fundraising Failure: More advertising for rotting fish is unlikely to improve sales....)
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To: MNDude

No wonder I’ve been so tired.


31 posted on 04/16/2024 6:51:46 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: MNDude

If we launch enough climate scientists into space fast enough at a westward angle, it’ll speed the earth’s rotation right back up. It’s long past time for such a project.


32 posted on 04/16/2024 6:53:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: quantim
The Sun is about 1,000,000,000 times the Earth’s mass

About 333,000 times, actually.

33 posted on 04/16/2024 6:54:45 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Bon of Babble

Slow propaganda/gaslighting day.


34 posted on 04/16/2024 6:54:52 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: sjmjax

The loony media put all the hooks in the water one of has to get a bite.


35 posted on 04/16/2024 6:55:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MNDude

NBC says the earth’s rotation is slowing down, and CBS news said it is speeding up. Which one is it?


36 posted on 04/16/2024 7:01:39 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: MNDude
panic-oh-noes

Meanwhile the "Climate Change" Cult holds another meeting and celebrates the fact that everyone there has the exact same view of the World.

HUA

37 posted on 04/16/2024 7:07:32 AM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: AZJeep

“The Sky is falling!”

A chicken runs up to the farmer and says, “The Sky Is Falling.”

The former shouts,” Oh my God, a talking chicken!”


38 posted on 04/16/2024 7:08:28 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: MNDude
Then there's this:

Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

39 posted on 04/16/2024 7:09:04 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: mfish13

I was looking for comment like this.


40 posted on 04/16/2024 7:15:35 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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