Climate Change Is Making Days Longer And Could Soon Exceed The Moon’s Influence

Image caption: The melting of Greenland’s glaciers is having effects that are less important, but more surprising than the flooding of low-lying lands. Image credit: Mozgova / Shutterstock.com. Article by Stephen Luntz. Edited by Laura Simmons. IFLScience – July 16, 2024. Research articles: PNAS and Nature Geoscience. 

It’s far from the most important effect of a hotter world, but rising temperatures are slowing the Earth’s rotation, making the days longer. The effect is certainly small, but new research predicts that in a high emissions scenario the knock-on consequences of human activity will exert a greater influence over the rate the Earth turns than the tidal effects of the Moon. […]

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