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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Earth’s spin is slowing at an unprecedented rate, thanks to climate change | Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

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Earth’s spin is slowing at an unprecedented rate, thanks to climate change | Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

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Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame
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Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

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The papers are here and here. The first paper is paywalled, the second is open-access.

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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