Warming and Slowing the World

chrisleonard writes "We all know that global warming is supposed to heat the planet up, but did you know that it might also slow it down? According to a report from Belgium's Royal Observatory (as reported here by astronomy.com), if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you. Would it be wrong to call the interaction of the world's warming temperatures and its slowing rotation ... a snowball effect?"

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Someone must do something!

[Greyjack]

De Viron's team found that earthlings can expect the length of an average day to increase by 11 millionths of a second per decade, corresponding to an overall increase of about one ten-thousandth of a second by the close of the century.

Oh... my... GOD! The ramifications of this are... uh, on second thought, never mind.

Pshaw, I bet we could accelerate the Earth more effectively than that if we'd all get together on the first of every month, point all our cars West, and punch the accelerator simultaneously.

Re:Global warming finally making itself present..

[Lumpy]

3. NASA satellites (which have been measuring the temperature of one of the atmospheres of the planet - I forget it's name, but it's about 1km above the surface of the planet) shows that the planet has actually been cooling down since the records have recorded. How is it that the planet has been warming up yet the atmosphere cooling down? And remember, these statistics are taken for the entire planet, not just the area over which is land.

any sattelite orbiting at an altitude of 1Km would be a wild fireball that would either last 3 seconds and then cease to exist or cause thousands of UFO sightings and cause accidents with aircraft.

I have been above 1Km at least 60 times in my life (a private aircraft, single prop without a pressurized cabin can get to 2km easily. and I can positively say that there are NO sattelites at that altitude...

Oh and weather balloons, hang aroud 30-50Km high.