Posted on 07/17/2024 12:57:08 PM PDT by Twotone
The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research.
Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s rotation and increasing the length of each day, in a trend set to accelerate over this century as humans continue to pump out planet-heating pollution, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The changes are small — a matter of milliseconds a day — but in our high-tech, hyperconnected world have an important impact on computing systems we have come to rely on, including GPS.
It’s yet another sign of the huge impact humans are having on the planet. “This is a testament to the gravity of ongoing climate change,” said Surendra Adhikari, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a report author.
The number of hours, minutes and seconds making up each day on Earth are dictated by the speed of the Earth’s rotation, which is influenced by a complex knot of factors. These include processes in the planet’s fluid core, the ongoing impact of the melting of huge glaciers after the last ice age, as well as melting polar ice due to climate change.
For millennia, however, the impact of the moon has dominated, increasing the length of a day by a few milliseconds per century. The moon exerts a pull on Earth causing the oceans to bulge towards it, gradually slowing Earth’s rotation.
Scientists have previously made connections between polar ice melt and longer days, but the new research suggests global warming is a bigger influence on time than recent studies have shown.
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Great, I was really getting jaded about my diminishing panic levels over mere global warming.
Is there anything the global warming/climate change superstition can’t do?
No wonder I’m so tired at the end of the day!..............
Perhaps we can go back in time and prevent Greta Thunberg’s parents from dating.
Gee... like cosmic, man.
Oh brother
Tired of hearing everything blamed on climate change.
Is there anything “climate change” can’t do?
Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s rotation and increasing the length of each day
”Journalists” are seriously some of the biggest morons on the face of the earth.
Not to take away from current events, but I look forward to a 4 year reprieve from this madness following a Trump inauguration.
The drumbeat from the cult of stupidity is draining.
They are getting more absurd every day.
Maybe I should ask my boss for time-and-a-half overtime pay...............
GTFOOH
Huh? I've always read our planet's core is solid iron and nichel.
The whole point of articles like this is to generate emotion - principally fear and insecurity, with a craving for “somebody” to save the day. And of course an all-powerful central government is that savior.
No wonder I’ve been so tired, those extra microseconds really burn you out.
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