kottke.orgThe Earth’s rotation is slowing, in part due to global warming. Melting ice flows away from high latitudes: “a transfer of mass away from the poles towards the equator, which slows down the Earth’s rotation rate”. https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/global-warming-influencing-global-timekeeping
Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping
A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a paper published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature by Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and global warming is influencing when that problem might arrive.
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