Comment on Climate change slows Earth's rotation, lengthening days
Lats@aus.social 1 day ago@porcoesphino @Innerworld the headline would have been better “Rising oceans are slowing the Earths rotation - Climate Change!”. The interesting thing is that there is no real discussion about what the impact of slower rotation may be, apart from curiosity.
#sealevelrise #climatechange
maxy@piefed.social 13 hours ago
I guess it’s only what the article says - relevant for some space manoeuvres or precise measurements, and a curiosity otherwise.
In the long run days are getting longer anyway, as angular momentum keeps being transferred from earth to moon, which is slowly getting farther away. See Wikipedia Day - Variations in length and Moon - System evolution.