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This seems familiar….oh, right, once the climate cult latches on to something they never let go. And it’s all your fault

Climate change will soon make Earth’s days longer. Here’s what that means for the planet

The effects of climate change are pervasive, from biodiversity loss to extreme weather events, rising sea levels, wildfires and human mass migration. With each year that passes, we learn more about our impact on the environment – some of which are more surprising than others.

Joining the list is one of the most seismic findings to date: scientists have recently discovered that our greenhouse gas emissions are changing how Earth spins.

The consequence? Earth’s days are getting longer, which could dramatically affect how we keep time in the coming years.

“It’s fascinating that we, as humans, with the record change in the climate we’ve caused over the past 100 years, can impact the whole Earth like that,” says Prof Benedikt Soja, a scientist at ETH Zürich who helped uncover the troubling trend.

“This could be larger than any previously dominant effect on our planet’s rotation.”

Everybody panic!

The study found that from 1900 to 2000, the climate’s effect on the length of Earth’s day hovered between 0.3 and 1.0 milliseconds per century. Since 2000, accelerated melting has increased this rate to 1.3 milliseconds per century. In a worst-case scenario, this could rise to 2.6 milliseconds per century by 2100 if emissions remain unchecked.

See! Doom comes….oh, wait. Worst case is 2.6 milliseconds per century? This is what they are saying is essentially the worse effect of you driving a fossil fueled vehicle, eating meat, and holding on to your liberty?

Earth, like any rotating body, obeys the law of conservation of momentum, which can be briefly explained like this: momentum must be conserved; momentum depends on the moment of inertia and the speed of rotation; if mass moves further from the axis of rotation, the moment of inertia increases.

As such, to maintain momentum as the ice melts, Earth’s rotation slows down, making our days longer.

OK, so, the Earth is slowing down? But, they told us this back in August 2022

The Earth spun faster than usual on June 29 and triggered climate anxiety — here’s how to cope

The Earth shaved 1.59 milliseconds off its rotation on June 29, 2022 and became the shortest day recorded since accurate daily measurements using atomic clocks first began in the 1960s.

The length of day is measured by how fast or slow the Earth is spinning, and data from recent years show that Earth is spinning faster than it ever has, according to scientists who study the Earth’s rotation.

So, Earth was spinning faster? Literally, the cult is blaming melting for spinning fast and slower. So, which is it? And, can they compare it to what happened during previous Holocene warm and cool periods?