Global warming slows down not only people but also our planet. The rate of ice melting at the poles is so great that it noticeably lengthens the length of days. Scientists from Zurich warn that if the Earth continues to warm, this effect could overcome the tidal forces of the Moon in the future.<\/p>\n
Movement of water from the poles to the equator<\/strong><\/p>\n Due to climate change, the ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting and water from these areas is moving into the oceans, especially in the equatorial region. Benedikt Soja from ETH Zurich explains that this movement of mass affects the rotation of the Earth.<\/p>\n Lengthening of days measured by satellites<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently, the days are lengthening by about 1.33 milliseconds per century. Climate change therefore causes a measurable lengthening of the days, which can be recorded by modern satellites.<\/p>\n A chain reaction of slowing down the Earth's rotation<\/strong><\/p>\n This effect is the result of a chain reaction: the melting of the ice in the polar regions, the rise in the level of the oceans and the subsequent change in the distribution of mass on the Earth, which slows down its rotation.<\/p>\n An example with a figure skater<\/strong><\/p>\n "Soja compares it to a figure skater who, during a pirouette, first holds her arms close to her body and then spreads them out. When the arms are close to the body, the rotation is faster, but when they are spread out, the rotation slows down due to increased inertia," Soja explains. The slowing down of the Earth's rotation leads to a lengthening of the days, albeit only minimally.<\/p>\n Losing the "job" of the Moon<\/strong><\/p>\n Scientists warn that if climate change is not curbed, this effect could exceed the influence of the Moon on the Earth's rotation. The Moon exerts tidal forces on the Earth, visible in the tides, which slightly slow the Earth's rotation and thereby lengthen the day. (CO2AI)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global warming is slowing down not only people, but also our planet. The rate of melting ice at the poles is so great that it is observably lengthening the length of the days. Scientists from Zurich warn that if the Earth continues to warm, this effect could overcome the tidal forces of the Moon in the future. Water movement from the poles to the equator Due to climate change, the ice in [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}