Friday, April 23, 2021

Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows - The Guardian

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:33 PM Al wrote:

Seriously, the Guardian is taking advantage of the stupid people in our world. Does anyone with a functioning brain cell really believe climate change caused the Earth to tip on its axis??? It's the other way around. The Earth's axis shift is causing climate change, not the other way around. Geez, Louise!


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 10:25 PM John wrote:

Since the Earth is a rotating body in space, it makes some sense that shifting mass would affect the rotation.  I have no doubt that this has happened before.  Even gravity is not uniform all over the planet because the Earth's internal mass is not uniform.  But as the article says ...

"However, the movement of the Earth's axis is not large enough to affect daily life, he said: it could change the length of a day, but only by milliseconds."


Here are some more serious things to worry about:   





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