No, Newsweek, Sea Level Rise Is Not Causing Longer Days
By Marc Morano
July 31, 2024
8:30 am
By David Middleton
*Editors’ Note: This guest post by Geologist David Middleton discusses a recent claim in the media that sea level rise is causing longer days by changing the rate of the planet’s rotation. However, Middleton reveals that there are major problems with the theory, not least of which that this is not a new phenomenon. As Climate Realism has covered dozens of times, models are not proof, and these studies certainly lean on modelling.
‘Unprecedented’ Sea Level Rise Is Making Earth’s Days Longer
Published Jul 15, 2024 at 3:00 PM EDT
By Jess Thomson
Science Reporter
Our changing climate is impacting our planet in a huge number of ways—ranging from powerful hurricanes and intense droughts to invasive species and ocean acidification—but there might be another bizarre effect that you’ve never heard of.
Climate change might actually be slowly changing the length of a day on Earth, according to a new paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This is a result of sea levels rising—because of increased temperatures and the melting of the polar ice caps—thereby causing a redistribution of mass from the poles of our planet toward the equator.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/07/31/no-newsweek-sea-level-rise-is-not-causing-longer-days/
