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I think it's global warming. It has to be.
by bioinformatics 6y ago
I think it's global warming. It has to be.
- samatman 6y agoIt could be but it absolutely doesn't have to be. Heavier material in the mantle subsiding towards the core could do it just as easily, and there is a lot more mass beneath the crust than above it.
- jandrese 6y agoI would expect global warming to have the opposite effect. Slightly expanding the atmosphere causing the mass to be further from the center, slowing down the rotation. The problem is that the atmosphere is so light compared to the rest of the earth that even at the nanosecond level I have doubts you would see this effect. To affect the rotation of the Earth by whole seconds/year you need to be talking about yottatons of rock shifting.
- _trampeltier 6y agoI have a different idea, it could be the global warming. A lot of snow and ice melt and flow down from the mountains in to the ocean. So a lot of mass does come a bit closer to the center and would it make it more fast. And wasn't lately not also something with the magnetic field?
- epistasis 6y agoArticle speculated differently: > They also have begun wondering if global warming might push the Earth to spin faster as the snow caps and high-altitude snows begin disappearing.