Human-driven climate change has 'slowed the Earth's rotation' and could affect how we measure time, study suggests
The melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica is said to have slowed the rotation of the Earth because it has changed where the planet's mass is concentrated.
Tell me how that affects rotation again?
How does a ball 'spin faster' with ice at the ends?
How does a ball 'spin slower' if it is not frozen at the ends?
In any case, the Earth has had periods of NO ice at the poles, when humans were not even there, making nasty car fumes. Explain that.
Furthermore, the literature suggest that CO2 has nothing to do with it - that it follows the temperature rather than driving it. This may explain why ((they)) are trying to find a different reason for the ice melting, but the spinning of the Earth is new one.
P.S. Just to prove that the CO2 nonsense is well and truly over:
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/1729/2022/
Well I mean spin around in a chair holding weights above your head. Then lower the weights to the side. See what happens to your rotation, even though everything "weighs the same".
Climate change is a scam, but redistributing weight on a spinning object will definitely affect it's speed of rotation.
Yes, the idea with spinning around and redistributing weight while doing so means: bringing your arms INto your body, means spinning faster.
They are claiming the opposite.
So it still does not make sense.
Yeah, the claim in the article is that ice weight towards the poles has melted which essentially moves the weight away from the poles, and the poles is the center of rotation. So move mass away from the center of rotation and the spinning body slows down. Again I think it's all a scam, but the claim itself makes logical sense