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Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day
ailnlv writes "Days on Earth just got shorter. The recent earthquake in Chile shifted the planet's axis by about 8 cm and shortened days by 1.26 microseconds 'The changes can be modeled, though they're difficult to detect physically given their small size. ... Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted. ... Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake ...'"
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Ok, pass the popcorn, let's watch the climate zealots (of either side) have a field day with this...
Do you think climate is OT? Plate tectonics are far more important for creating ice ages than atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Q. What do all ice ages have in common? A large polar land mass and a continent that stretches almost entirely from the north to south poles. In our current ice age, that is antarctica and the americas. It is no coincidence that the present ice age started around 3 million years ago; Right around the same time the isthmus of Panama rose up out of the ocean.
Around 500 million years ago, there was an ice age in the late Ordovician period where atmospheric CO2 levels were around 4200ppm. Again, the two conditions mentioned above were met. Climate 'scientists' with an agenda typically omit this datapoint from their presentations purposely, because it doesn't fit with their theory that CO2 is the most important factor when dealing with Earth's climate.
In short: Want to cause global warming? Open the flood gates to the Panama canal and let nature do the rest. Otherwise, we have to wait for nature to bust open that isthmus for us. Either way, expect the climate cultists to give you a smug "I told you so!" if it ever happens in our lifetime. They won't ever admit it wasn't the CO2, but then, when did facts ever bother them anyway.
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