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Loss of Antarctic ice has caused a measurable shift in gravity
Posted on 10/1/14 at 5:23 am
Posted on 10/1/14 at 5:23 am
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 5:51 am to Jim Rockford
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This story originally appeared in Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
May as well have just said "this is an advertisement for more climate research grants".
Love how they say gravity and then don't describe how melting ice relates to gravity or link causality, or discuss what the change actually is.
But frick it lets tax the shite out of the middle class and poor.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:09 am to Jim Rockford
Global warming linked to racism,sexism,ebola, AIDS, and obesity.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:10 am to Vols&Shaft83
Yes, all should be taken very seriously. Have an Upvote.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:11 am to TT9
I'm sure raising taxes would fix this problem.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:24 am to Me4Heisman
Increase overall spending especially those studies that involve spiders mating in underwater caves during winter months
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:35 am to Jim Rockford
Will Guam flip over?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:52 am to Jim Rockford
quote:Gosh, that sounds damn serious. . . . and sea rise could be as much as 50 inches by the end of the century. We'd better get our Azolla agriculture dusted off so we can fix this.
Loss of Antarctic ice has caused a measurable shift in gravity
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:53 am to Me4Heisman
It very well could.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:11 am to Jim Rockford
How the frick is that even god damn possible.
If I melt 2 grams of ice, I still have 2 grams of water.
The fricking mass hasn't changed. How in the frick would gravity...which is dependent on mass, change?
This is out of fricking control
If I melt 2 grams of ice, I still have 2 grams of water.
The fricking mass hasn't changed. How in the frick would gravity...which is dependent on mass, change?
This is out of fricking control
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:15 am to Jim Rockford
quote:
Loss of Antarctic ice has caused a measurable shift in gravity
so your telling me all of my weight loss this summer is just because global warming caused there to be less gravity.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:16 am to CptBengal
quote:
How the frick is that even god damn possible.
If I melt 2 grams of ice, I still have 2 grams of water.
The fricking mass hasn't changed. How in the frick would gravity...which is dependent on mass, change?
This is out of fricking control
Well, I suspect it's the same driver as the one discussed in this article about Low Gravity in parts of Canada
Alas, it's not exactly a big f'n deal. They don't mean that all of the Earth has lost gravity and in fact, since mass didn't change, it just probably means it has been redistributed.
But that doesn't make for near as frightening an article!!!!
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:16 am to Jim Rockford
No it hasn't.
You can't make a claim like that without explaining the link between the two and how melting ice will cause an increase in gravity.
You can't make a claim like that without explaining the link between the two and how melting ice will cause an increase in gravity.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:16 am to CptBengal
Also notice how the ESA satellite paper they reference only talks about ice volume?
Who in the frick and where are these gravity calculations?
Who in the frick and where are these gravity calculations?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:18 am to CptBengal
quote:
How the frick is that even god damn possible. If I melt 2 grams of ice, I still have 2 grams of water. The fricking mass hasn't changed. How in the frick would gravity...which is dependent on mass, change? This is out of fricking control
I don't know but if somebody gives me lots of money to study this, I will sure try to figure it out.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:18 am to Scruffy
quote:See my link on Canada's low gravity.
You can't make a claim like that without explaining the link between the two and how melting ice will cause an increase in gravity.
But again, it's just a silly article because it aint like the whole Earth lost gravity. It's merely a localized phenomenon likely driven by the same shite driving the loss in Canada that has nothing to do with global warming. No one acted like Canada having low gravity has some ominous meaning but since they think they can link this one with GW, "oh my God.....sky is falling!!!"
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:20 am to CptBengal
quote:
Also notice how the ESA satellite paper they reference only talks about ice volume?
Who in the frick and where are these gravity calculations?
It doesn't matter, get out of here with your logic and common sense. We need carbon credits, taxes, and bitcoins mother fricker
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:22 am to SettleDown
quote:
it's just a silly article
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:35 am to CptBengal
quote:When polar ice melts, the water shifts toward the equator, due to the earth's rotation, in a way that the ice obviously couldn't because it is static. This causes an increase in the difference between one's weight at the equator and at a pole, which is measurable.
How the frick is that even god damn possible.
If I melt 2 grams of ice, I still have 2 grams of water.
The fricking mass hasn't changed. How in the frick would gravity...which is dependent on mass, change?
This is out of fricking control
I learned this in 8th grade.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:36 am to SettleDown
I know that low gravity spot.
If you'd like to discuss it, let's talk about the geologic structure of the earth, isostacy, and how this won't have caused the fricking laws of physics to break down.
If you'd like to discuss it, let's talk about the geologic structure of the earth, isostacy, and how this won't have caused the fricking laws of physics to break down.
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