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 New Scientist, which revealed last year that obesity causes global warming, now tells us that global warming will make days longer, which has been confirmed by NASA. So not only is at least one global warming hysteric worried that efforts to stop global warming may slow the rotation of the earth, but the hysterical New Scientist reports that global warming itself slows it:
Global
warming will make days longer as well as hotter, say Belgian
scientists. A team led by Olivier de Viron of the Royal Observatory of
Belgium has calculated the impact of global warming from the build-up
of greenhouse gases in the air on the angular momentum of the planet.
So we might at well get used to longer and longer days. Who needs Daylight Savings Time anymore?
Oops, days already are getting longer, and have been for billions of years before Bill Clinton ate his first Big Mac or scientists had too much time on their hands and too much tax money to spend.
The Left is beyond parody. NASA's next manned mission to the moon is further away than
the first mission was when President Kennedy announced the goal of
getting there and back within the decade. Iran is building an atomic
bomb, North Korea has one, the Russians and Chinese are rapidly
increasing the size of their militaries, Islamofascist fanatics are
killing people over cartoons, and NASA is busy calculating that a
hypothetical half meter increase in sea level brought on by global
warming will increase the effective radius of the earth by one part in
20 million, thus slowing its rotation and lengthening the day.
What
I find truly evil is not that Belgian scientists are frightening people
into worrying that the world will stop rotating; after all, NASA is
brave enough about it. No, what is truly evil is that Al Gore and his
scientific prostitutes take advantage of people's ignorance. Al Gore
must have said a thousand times that we must "stop climate change" on a
planet that has had billions of years of climate change. We must
preserve the composition of an atmosphere that has never had a stable
composition.
Astronomy Today by Eric Chaisson and
Steve McMillan says in a passage that too few students seem to have
read or remembered that tidal effects are slowing down the rotation of
the earth. A half billion years ago, days were only twenty-two hours
long. If the rate of slowing in the preceding billion and a half years
was the same as it has been in the last half a billion, then two
billion years ago, days lasted only sixteen hours.
The
rotation of the earth is slowing, the distance of the moon is
increasing, the atmosphere of the earth and the radiation of the sun
keep changing, continents drift together and break apart, volcanoes
erupt unpredictably, asteroids crash intermittently, and Al Gore, the
Nobel committee, three presidential candidates, and the United Nations
tell us that we have to sacrifice one tenth of our economy to keep it
from all happening. Source
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