Climate change miscalculations?
March 23, 2008 at 23:27 by Mike McQuaid
I had a random but amusing thought today as I spectated the White Easter but remembering a lack of a White Christmas for years.
What if our “climate chaos” and all the weather changes we are seeing are just the fact that the rotation of the earth is at a slightly different speed so years are now the wrong length! That would explain the whole warmer winters but colder summers!
Disclaimer:
I make every effort to reduce my impact on the environment, this blog post is intended to be humour not a complex rebuttal of common scientific theory. However, I reserve the right to merciless mock the entire scientific community.
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if the rotation of the planet is faster, that would make it bulge more. for us in the UK, effectively it’s the same as living on top of a mountain, which as we know is white because of the white-hot molten rock due to being closer to the sun*.
* This theory copyright M Arthur, AS physics. 2000/2001.
Being born in a wintery barn is fine when livestock is breathing down you neck.
But being a snow covered meat-popsicle on a cross is definitely more sacrifice than scripture requires!
The world is slowing down (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration) but really slowly (+1.70 ± 0.05 ms/century). Not only is this far to slow to affect the day length significantly over the global warming time-scale (tens of centuries at most), but I fail to see how the earth slowing down would lead to a change in seasonal average temperature anyway.
Hi there,
Actually, snow outside winter isn’t that unusual in England. I remember a snow flurry in a Spring month in the early 1990s in Suffolk (1991 I think); in 1998 we went to the Peak District for the easter holidays and it snowed one day; a couple of years ago there was a hailstorm in the middle of the summer in London. The only time you don’t get icy weather in England is late Summer and Autumn. The snow we have here in London is not heavy and hasn’t settled on the ground, and settled on roofs only briefly.
> However, I reserve the right to merciless mock the entire scientific community.
Join the club. It seems quite popular to do these days
> Join the club. It seems quite popular to do these days
I think it’s required if you live in the USA.
btw http://www.ipcc.ch
The summaries for policymakers are quite readable.