Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
www.nbcnews.com
A new study found that ice loss caused by climate change is redistributing mass on the Earth enough to alter its spin.
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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Gothmagog on 2024-03-28 18:52:04.

Why this is relevant: Shows yet another unknown consequence of global warming, and highlights the inevitable trend of more and more of these being revealed as the earth reacts to us. There isn’t a computer model large enough to allow us to predict these, though perhaps weight distribution from the melting polar ice caps might be considered one of the easier consequences to predict.