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Putting The Alarmist Spin On The Earth’s Rotation
« on: May 05, 2025, 06:12:05 am »
Putting The Alarmist Spin On The Earth’s Rotation
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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach

So I ran across this headline and subhead out on the interwebz:

“China Disrupts Earth’s Rotation”: NASA Confirms Massive Project Is Slowing the Planet With Unprecedented Global Consequences

In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA confirms that China’s monumental Three Gorges Dam project is subtly altering Earth’s rotation, raising global environmental concerns.

Intrigued, I read on … and on … and on … and finally down near the end, I find that the NASA geniuses have estimated that the Three Gorges Dam will increase the length of a day by … wait for it … 0.06 microseconds.

And how big is that?

Well, it will increase the day length by a whopping 0.00000000007% …

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/04/putting-the-alarmist-spin-on-the-earths-rotation/
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