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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/climate-change-is-making-days-longer-and-could-soon-exceed-the-moons-influence/
- Published: 2024-07-17T09:45:44-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.iflscience.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio