By Jack Hellner
I don’t know how we can offset the devastation. Studies show that the Earth’s rotation may change from 1 millisecond per century to 2.6 milliseconds per century by the year 2100 if we don’t reduce our emissions.
If my calculations are correct, that means that in 60,000 years, our use of oil, natural gas, and coal will change the rotation of the Earth by one second. How could we ever handle such a huge change? How can anyone tell if these calculations are remotely correct or verify what they say is the cause? The answer is, we can’t. It is all a massive scam to make the government bigger and to control our lives.
Everyone should remember that the politicians and bureaucrats who say they can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever say they aren’t responsible for the rapid inflation in food and oil prices.
I wonder why any of us oppose their policies and don’t trust what they tell us.
#ClimateCrisis is making days longer, study finds. #ClimateScience #GravitationalDrag #HumanCausedGlobalHeating
The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.
The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years.
“We can see our impact as humans on the whole Earth system, not just locally, like the rise in temperature, but really fundamentally, altering how it moves in space and rotates,” said Prof Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Due to our carbon emissions, we have done this in just 100 or 200 years. Whereas the governing processes previously had been going on for billions of years, and that is striking.”
Human timekeeping is based on atomic clocks, which are extremely precise. However, the exact time of a day – one rotation of the Earth – varies due to lunar tides, climate impacts and some other factors, such as the slow rebound of the Earth’s crust after the retreat of ice sheets formed in the last ice age.
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, used observations and computer reconstructions to assess the impact of melting ice on the length of the day. The rate of slowing varied between 0.3 and 1.0 millisecond per century (ms/cy) between 1900 and 2000. But since 2000, as melting accelerated, the rate of change also accelerated to 1.3ms/cy.
“This present-day rate is likely higher than at any time in the past few thousand years,” the researchers said. “It is projected to remain approximately at a level of 1.0 ms/cy for the next few decades, even if greenhouse gas emissions are severely curbed.” If emissions are not cut, the slowing rate will increase to 2.6 ms/cy by 2100, overtaking lunar tides as the single biggest contributor to long-term variations in the length of days, they said.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/now_climate_change_is_ruining_the_earth_s_rotation.html
— Ah, the lying Left.
— Muslim Supremacist Fulani terrorists are regularly attacking Christians and animists in Nigeria. The Lying Left describes the Fulani as poor herders who are being “oppressed” by “Western-caused climate change.” Ignoring the Fulani’s own explanation that they are seizing Infidel lands, burning Infidel churches (and now also executing gays) because of the mandates of Islam and Sharia.
— Some more reasonable folk have pointed out that the Sahara desert is not the fault of Western democracies. Scientists have long known that the Sahara goes through a 20,000 year long cycle of greening (called AHD or African Humid Periods) and then desertification. The last rivers and lakes disappeared out of the Sahara about 6,000 years ago, so the Sahara may well expand for another couple of thousand years before the desertification cycle starts to reverse itself. With or without humans using fossil fuels.
— Climate Communists, of course, hate this knowledge getting out. Since the 20,000 year long Sahara cycle depends on a wobble in the earth’s rotation, it’s natural that Climate Communists will begin to claim that it’s actually fossil fuels that are changing the earth’s rotation! Typical.
— For the nerds – You remember learning that the earth is closer to the sun at some points of its orbit? But that summer occurs not when we’re closer to the sun, but rather summer occurs in the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the sun? Well, what your teachers probably failed to tell you is that the tilt of the earth’s axis changes every 20,000 years. “like a wobble in a rotating top” Prehistoric humans have survived the huge climate change that occurs when the earth’s axis changes its tilt. But human civilization has existed only during this fortunate period when the Northern Hemisphere enjoys summer (due to tilt) when it is actually farthest from the sun. Thus, mild summers. And winters when it is closest to the sun. Thus, mild winters. Lucky for us. The Southern Hemisphere currently gets harsher seasons, but that effect is mitigated by the fact that the Southern Hemisphere is mostly ocean. And the ocean moderates temperatures. The Northern Hemisphere is going to have disastrous climate change, however, when the earth changes its tilt thousands of years from now. And that will happen with or without humans and with or without fossil fuels.
— Scientists generally agree on their Sahara theory. The Sahara will get much hotter when the Northern Hemisphere starts experiencing summer when it’s closest to the sun. The hot air rises off the desert sand so rapidly that it creates a sort of vacuum effect, sucking in cooler, moister air from over the Atlantic. This sets up monsoon patterns which eventually result in the greening of the Sahara.