Re: The climate crisis grows exponentially.

In alt.global-warming kensi <kkensington01-NOSPAM@gmail.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-10-17 10:30 a.m., Scout wrote:

We know the rotation of the Earth has changed over time, and is
currently changing now. Which means a shift in mass. But not just any
shift in mass. it has to be a shift in mass AWAY from the center, since
we are slowing. If the mass moved toward the center then rotation
increases. So all this ice and snow that is melting and running into the
oceans SHOULD be increasing the speed of the earth's rotation, but it's
slowing.

 
The ice that's melting is mostly close to the poles, and thus to the
axis of rotation. The water that results ends up distributed evenly in
the oceans, and most of it thus ends up farther from the poles. A chunk
of ice near the north or south pole contributes less to Earth's moment
of inertia than the same mass of water in, say, the Gulf of Mexico.
 
So, there is a mass flow away from the spin axis, from poles to equator.
There's also a slower, longer-term slowing caused by tidal effects
related to the moon.
 

So how does kensi propose to show that this cycle at this time is
somehow non-natural?

 
https://skepticalscience.com/yes-its-still-us-and-its-still-bad.html
 

The main cause of the changing speed of rotation is of course the
moons drag on the earth.
So Scooter is wrong again. How many times does that make?

--
Fossil companies try to spin their billions in tax breaks as anything
but profits boosted by taxpayers. It's just "state revenue forgone"
and is not a payment or money, let alone some kind of theft or
confidence trick.  If one of their employees was paid to put on a
black mask and go house-to-house in their neighbourhood asking
families to "donate" $7000 -- approx what US households contribute
a year to fossil subsidies -- to some oil conglomerate they would
likely be strung up from the nearest overpass in 10 minutes.

[Operating Insolvent:]
In 2022, fossil fuel subsidies in the United States totaled $757 billion,
according to the International Monetary Fund.
-- EESI.org, 30 Jan 2024
[Around $6900 per US household per year].

During this period, the U.S. made an annual average revenue of 136.9
billion U.S. dollars through the production and marketing of fossil fuel
products.
-- statista.com, 29 Apr 2024