I just browsed your CBS News link. It had some interesting information. Since I know you won't read the article (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spin ... ld-clocks/), here's an excerpt explaining it all for you:
"Earth's speeding up because its hot liquid core — "a large ball of molten fluid" — acts in unpredictable ways, with eddies and flows that vary, Agnew said.
Agnew said the core has been triggering a speedup for about 50 years, but rapid melting of ice at the poles since 1990 masked that effect. Melting ice shifts Earth's mass from the poles to the bulging center, which slows the rotation much like a spinning ice skater slows when extending their arms out to their sides, he said.
Without the effect of melting ice, Earth would need that negative leap second in 2026 instead of 2029, Agnew calculated."
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Re: Get Your Hysteria Straight
Males sense.stuporstitionist wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:39 amI just browsed your CBS News link. It had some interesting information. Since I know you won't read the article (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spin ... ld-clocks/), here's an excerpt explaining it all for you:
"Earth's speeding up because its hot liquid core — "a large ball of molten fluid" — acts in unpredictable ways, with eddies and flows that vary, Agnew said.
Agnew said the core has been triggering a speedup for about 50 years, but rapid melting of ice at the poles since 1990 masked that effect. Melting ice shifts Earth's mass from the poles to the bulging center, which slows the rotation much like a spinning ice skater slows when extending their arms out to their sides, he said.
Without the effect of melting ice, Earth would need that negative leap second in 2026 instead of 2029, Agnew calculated."
Pissy should try reading more than just tweets once in a while.
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Re: Get Your Hysteria Straight
The two stories offset each other, resulting in no change in the rotation of the Earth.
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Re: Get Your Hysteria Straight
They don't offset each other because the earth is still spinning faster than it was 50 years ago.
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Re: Get Your Hysteria Straight
You really are a special kind of stupid
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