Friday, September 28, 2018

          DOES THIS MEAN BEAVERS WIGGLE THE AXIS OF EVIL ?

 A WOBBLY MANIFESTO FROM 
       Humans Contribute to Earth’s Wobble, Scientists Say                      
Since 1899, the Earth's axis of spin has shifted about 34 feet (10.5 meters). Now, research quantifies the reasons why and finds that a third is due to melting ice and rising sea levels, particularly in Greenland—placing the blame on the doorstep of anthropogenic climate change...
in the new research, published in the November issue of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Adhikari and his colleagues found that glacial isostatic adjustment was only responsible for about 1.3 inches (3.5 centimeters) of axis wobble per year. That was only about a third of the wobble—4 inches (10.5 cm)—observed each year over the 20th century.
To fill in the gap, the research team built a computer model of the physics of Earth's spin, feeding in data about changes in the balance of land-based ice and ocean waters over the 20th century.
The researchers also accounted for ... the building of artificial reservoirs
VISCOUNT MONCKTON'S SCIENCE JOURNAL FAVORS A NATURAL CAUSE:
  WHAT ANTHROPOCENE WOBBLE? IT'S  JUST THE CASTOROCENE WIGGLE