Climate change confuses time travelling ducks by altering day length
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Time Travelling Ducks are becoming disoriented due to the Man-Made Climate Crisis melting the polar ice, which is messing with time and altering the length of each day.
Modern Time Travelling Ducks generally rely on GPS for accurate time jumping, but with time literally shifting due to Anthropogenic Climate Change, some ducks are having their time travel itineraries become screwed up.
Reports are trickling in about some ducks jumping to wrong times in the past and future, which is very worrying indeed.
● This CNN report sheds some light on why human-caused Climate Change is causing havoc with Earth’s time.
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“The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research.
Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s rotation and increasing the length of each day, in a trend set to accelerate over this century as humans continue to pump out planet-heating pollution, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The changes are small — a matter of milliseconds a day — but in our high-tech, hyperconnected world have an important impact on computing systems we have come to rely on, including GPS.
It’s yet another sign of the huge impact humans are having on the planet. “This is a testament to the gravity of ongoing climate change,” said Surendra Adhikari, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a report author.
… In the past, the impact of climate change on time “has not been so dramatic,” said Benedikt Soja, a study author and assistant professor of space geodesy at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.
But that could be changing. If the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, “climate change could become the new dominant factor,” outpacing the moon’s role, he told CNN.
● It works like this: As humans warm the world, glaciers and ice sheets are melting, and that meltwater is flowing from the poles toward the equator.
● This changes the planet’s shape — flattening it at the poles and making it bulge more in the middle — slowing its rotation.
The process is often compared to a spinning ice skater.
When the skater pulls their arms in towards their body, they spin faster.
But if they move their arms outwards, away from their body, their spin slows.
… Some studies have also suggested a correlation between an increase in day length and an increase in earthquakes, said Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi, a study author and a geoscientist at ETH Zurich.
But the connection remains speculative and much more research needs to be done to establish any clear link, he told CNN. …”