{"id":315117,"date":"2024-03-30T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=315117"},"modified":"2024-03-30T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:47:34","slug":"climate-change-is-slowing-the-earths-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=315117","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change is \u201cSlowing the Earth\u2019s Rotation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0SALLUST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you weren\u2019t already gibbering in your boots at the prospect of devastating climate change, it\u2019s time to think again. Apparently, the movement of water from the melting icecaps is slowing the rotation of the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effect is so drastic that \u2013 wait for it \u2013 the next \u2018leap second\u2019 required to reconcile atomic time with the position of the Earth may need to be added a whole three years later than expected. Scientific American<\/em><\/a> is one of the outlets with the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Drastic polar ice melt is slowing Earth\u2019s rotation, counteracting a speed-up from the planet\u2019s liquid outer core. The upshot is that we might need to subtract a leap second for the first time ever within the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is another one of those \u2018this has never happened before\u2019 things that we\u2019re seeing from global warming: the idea that this effect is large enough to change the rotation of the entire Earth,\u201d says study co-author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The BBC\u2019s World At One<\/em> (March 28th 2024) wheeled in Professor Andrew Shepherd, Head of the Geography and Environment Department at Northumbria University to spell out the impending horological catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained, deploying a colourful metaphor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

The mass [of water] moves towards the equator and spreads evenly around the planet. And that causes the planet to slow down in the same way that a ballerina spinner spinning would slow down if they moved their arms outwards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Presenter Jonny Dymond was keen to make sure listeners understood this is no joke with a proposition masquerading as a question: \u201cThis is another message from the Earth that things are changing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Shepherd took the bait:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Yeah. It\u2019s another bad news story unfortunately but it\u2019s a good example of how climate change affects all kinds of different parts of our lives. You might not think it\u2019s important that the Earth is slowing down but that changes all of the satellite telecommunications that we rely on and people have to take account of to make sure that the GPS system is as precise as we want it to be and all of that has to go on in the background because we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t programme those satellites but someone else has to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre you surprised by this finding?\u201d Dymond asked. Shepherd replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

So it\u2019s quite interesting. I was surprised that the fingerprint of climate change crops up in all kinds of different records. I was quite surprised to see that geodesists, people who look at the Earth and time, spotted it and, I guess, they were saying that what\u2019s going on here something must be happening and they\u2019re not climate scientists so they had to hunt around for the source of this and realised, stumbled upon the fact that our polar ice sheets are melting at a colossal rate and so they have to join the dots. And that\u2019s science really.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoin the dots\u201d, \u201cthat\u2019s science really\u201d. So that\u2019s how science works. Just come up with an all-purpose climate change hypothesis and stick to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ever, climate change apocalypse news is predicated on the concept that at some nebulous point in the relatively recent past the Earth was in a perfect unchanging state of equilibrium. The Moon of course is slowing the Earth\u2019s rotation<\/a> down anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for GPS, that\u2019s a 21st century problem. Just a few years ago Australia\u2019s annual 7cm move north<\/a> was realised to be why GPS systems and maps were out of synch with where the country\u2019s maps were located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could that be happening? Presumably the melting ice in Antarctica is pushing the island continent which is now surfing north towards the equator. Obvious, isn\u2019t it? All you have to do is join the dots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can listen to World At One<\/em> here<\/a>. Spin forward to 27:14 in. Or you can listen to Radio 4\u2019s PM<\/a> and learn how a nuclear war would result in a drop in world temperatures of 40 degrees Fahrenheit thanks to the soot from nuclear fires, resulting in \u201clarge bodies of water becoming sheets of ice\u201d (spin through to 57:35). Hobson\u2019s Choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better not tell the Child Saint that or she\u2019ll be clamouring for nuclear war. At least the world would stop slowing down though, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you weren\u2019t already gibbering in your boots at the prospect of devastating climate change, it\u2019s time to think again. Apparently, the movement of water from the melting icecaps is slowing the rotation of the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":315122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819671,691819134,691818056],"class_list":{"0":"post-315117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-arctic-ice","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-climate-change","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0240325-melting-ice-glacier-se-523p-a8f55d.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1jYx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":434749,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=434749","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":0},"title":"Heatwave Horse Hockey \u2013 The Climate Realism Show\u00a0#196","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Heartland Institute\u2019s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and special guest Chris Martz will reveal the truth about this heatwave and also cover other Crazy Climate News of the Week, including using carbon capture to carbonate beer, and how we should not be worried about climate change\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Carbon capture\"","block_context":{"text":"Carbon capture","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-capture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-27-171149.png?fit=1200%2C666&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-27-171149.png?fit=1200%2C666&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-27-171149.png?fit=1200%2C666&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-27-171149.png?fit=1200%2C666&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-27-171149.png?fit=1200%2C666&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":433076,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=433076","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":1},"title":"No, Euronews, a Millisecond Change in the Length of Day Can\u2019t Be Tied to Climate Change, Nor Is It a Crisis","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"22\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Euronews, writing in a recent article titled \u201cUnprecedented in the past 3.6 million years\u2019: How human-made climate change is making days longer,\u2019\u201d claims that climate change is slowly but measurably altering Earth\u2019s rotation, lengthening the day by about 1.33 milliseconds over a century, implying troubling consequences ahead for society and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-No-Euronews-a-Millisecond-Change-in-the-Length-of-Day-Cant-Be-Tied-to-Climate-Change-Nor-Is-It-a-Crisis1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-No-Euronews-a-Millisecond-Change-in-the-Length-of-Day-Cant-Be-Tied-to-Climate-Change-Nor-Is-It-a-Crisis1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-No-Euronews-a-Millisecond-Change-in-the-Length-of-Day-Cant-Be-Tied-to-Climate-Change-Nor-Is-It-a-Crisis1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-No-Euronews-a-Millisecond-Change-in-the-Length-of-Day-Cant-Be-Tied-to-Climate-Change-Nor-Is-It-a-Crisis1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":315752,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=315752","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":2},"title":"Another day in Climate mythology: coal fired plants are slowing Earths rotation","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead of talking about 30 year trends (because they were wrong), the experts started coloring weather maps blood red and hyperventilating with every warm weekend. So it makes perfect sense they need the ritual reminders of holy mythology, and this is one of those stories.","rel":"","context":"In \"BBC\"","block_context":{"text":"BBC","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bbc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Earth-Movements.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Earth-Movements.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Earth-Movements.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Earth-Movements.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Earth-Movements.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":431545,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=431545","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":3},"title":"From Shortest Days Ever to the Fastest Slowdown in 3.6 Million Years: How Earth’s Rotation Tells Two Stories at Once","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"There are two different headlines describe the exact same planet\u2014but on completely different timescales. They don't contradict each other; they layer on top of one another like waves on a slowly drifting ocean.","rel":"","context":"In \"Chandler wobble or free Eulerian nutation\"","block_context":{"text":"Chandler wobble or free Eulerian nutation","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=chandler-wobble-or-free-eulerian-nutation"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-From-Shortest-Days-Ever-to-the-Fastest-Slowdown-in-3.6-Million-Years-How-Earths-Rotation-Tells-Two-Stories-at-Once.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-From-Shortest-Days-Ever-to-the-Fastest-Slowdown-in-3.6-Million-Years-How-Earths-Rotation-Tells-Two-Stories-at-Once.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-From-Shortest-Days-Ever-to-the-Fastest-Slowdown-in-3.6-Million-Years-How-Earths-Rotation-Tells-Two-Stories-at-Once.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-From-Shortest-Days-Ever-to-the-Fastest-Slowdown-in-3.6-Million-Years-How-Earths-Rotation-Tells-Two-Stories-at-Once.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":250816,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=250816","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":4},"title":"Ross Clark: Stop terrorising the young with climate doom","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Rather, the most immediate danger lies in exaggerating the threats and rendering an entire generation incapacitated by fear.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02588785.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02588785.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02588785.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02588785.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02588785.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":221421,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=221421","url_meta":{"origin":315117,"position":5},"title":"Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"30\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201c\u2026 absent severe reductions in fossil fuel emissions, some places will likely have to give up farming entirely in the near future. \u2026\u201d","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1441.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1441.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1441.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1441.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315124,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315117\/revisions\/315124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}