We know that ongoing acceleration of global warming is melting polar ice caps more quickly. When the polar ice (located close to the Earth’s axis of rotation) melts, the meltwater distributes over the global oceans, raising sea levels but also increasing the so-called Moment of Inertia (I) of the Earth system (sorry to remind you of your high school physics). Since Angular Momentum (L) is conserved, and we calculate L = I times omega, as I increases then omega (angular frequency of Earth, which is tangential velocity times distance to axis of rotation) must decrease. Thus, melting polar ice caps slows down Earth’s rotation rate. This slowing down makes days longer, and we must compensate our global timekeeping of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by periodic discontinuous additions of “one leap second” every few years. Because of accelerated ice melt, we will need to remove “one leap second” in 2029; 3 years later than would be needed if polar ice melt was not accelerating. Climate change really does have profound effects on our planet. Why the figure skater? Well, we are like her when her arms and legs are tight to her body axis of spin. Melting polar ice caps is putting mass further from the spin axis, analogous to her putting her arms and a leg outward, slowing down the spin rate, making a complete revolution take longer. Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

@Glenn_Ratcliffe

2 ай бұрын

Without a doubt 1of the most visually descriptive thumbnails I've seen 2date 💪

@godfreypigott

Ай бұрын

Nice theory. Now look at the data. 2020 had ALL of the 28 shortest days in the previous 47 years. Your theory is the *exact opposite* of reality.

One night more than 10 years ago, this topic was brought up over dinner. My friends thought I was going crazy and dismissed my attempt to describe the physics covered in this video. This prediction on the impact to Earth rotation, due to change in the ice cap mass, was made more than a decade ago. Nature is amazing. Only I wished that more people would have respected her and perhaps we wouldn't in the mess we are in now. Only if......

Hi Paul, not sure if this counts as a social media channel, but you might consider putting the audio of your videos as a podcast. (This is something that someone like Nate Hagens does with his Great Simplification.) Lots of people listen to podcasts while on the go - it could be a great medium to reach a wider audience. Just a thought :)

@PaulHBeckwith

2 ай бұрын

That's a great idea!

@aegisfate117

2 ай бұрын

Also you should go on Nate Hagen's show!!!

Now I always wished to have two hours more a day, but didn't know melting the polar caps is the way of achieving it.

@frinoffrobis

2 ай бұрын

😁

@christinearmington

2 ай бұрын

Superior comment

@christinearmington

2 ай бұрын

Instead of an equatorial bulge I’m working on increasing my angular momentum. 😂

The last couple have been fun. Earth spin, Polar Vortex reversal, AMOC cooling slowing the blue water event are nice litte papers that toss out a few monkeys. It's nice when authors can find bit and pieces of this train wreck to point out that are novel. Are we fuqued? Sure, but look at the squirrel :) Thanks for another good one.

All prognostics getting worse. A very different world we’re heading into.

I can imagine that the redistribution of mass will also affect the earths magnetic field, continental drift and volcanism. We are messing with a system that has been relatively stable as long as humans and our cousins have existed. The unintended consequences will undoubtedly be dangerous to life on earth.

I thought that it was love that made the Earth go round, now I find out that it is conservation of angular momentum.

why do i get the feeling a future video will be Beckwith in an RV at the edge of a Caldera telling us the earth is about to do a triple Salchow followed by a double Lutz.

@aegisfate117

2 ай бұрын

Yo, Mr. White, the earth is cookin'

The Earth has a fluid core, surrounded by a mostly solid "shell" (plates), awash by oceans of water. I can hardly wait to see what happens to the "shell" as the fluids interactively shift toward the equator. Oh, that's right, we live on the "shell."

Fascinating!

There were going to use the acronym *C* oordinated *UN* iversal *T* ime but someone didn't like that. 😆

Due to the difficulties in subtracting leap seconds from the world's operating systems, it is projected that this will actually make aeroplanes fall out of the sky.

@EmeraldView

2 ай бұрын

😋

Ice caps have become outstretched ballerina arms in a spin

What I really want to know is how the flat earthers are going to explain this slow down. The "melting of the icewall" would in theory cause the opposite - or something...

@Arisaem

2 ай бұрын

They have no way to explain volcanoes in the first place.

@langdons2848

2 ай бұрын

@@Arisaemonly in their fever dreams.

Like the hull of a ship, what impact do changes in landscape have on the wobbling rotation of the planet as She sails through the cosmos?

Let me say it that way, the change of time is something everyone on the planet can grasp and it is the only way to approach everyone with the topic of climate change they can relate to.

WOW! With every new study we move closer to the brink (Especially if the scientists rely on gov grants)

this is good news. more time to implement the net zero, renewable energy and ecars techno fix. halleluiah

I didn't understand all of it but Why is the core spinning faster??

...wow. Don't the days go by fast enough already?

i read somewhere that the North Pole magnetic drift is a result of the trillions of tons of ice mass that has melted and floated away. If i remember correctly and not imagining this memory, it was confirmed by the two satellites traveling in tandem that measure the Earths gravity and the North Pole Drift was calibrated to the estimated mass loss,... am i crazy?

@-LightningRod-

2 ай бұрын

short answer is ,...im definatly crazy, ..chicks dig it ! he haw !!!

rotation has sped up

So... self made "forever calendars" are going to be useless.

@69Kevrod2012

2 ай бұрын

Tell that ro the Mayas...

Slowing down the spinning of Earth… wouldn’t that destabilize Earth’s crusts?

@nazmanaebbbz

2 ай бұрын

No, because the crust is a part of the earth and it spins with it

Finally something good from climate change! (half joking, every day is too short for me… though not good for nature)

Ha Ha, you lost me when you said, hello I'm Pau......😢 Thanks anyway.

A pole shift seems the likely outcome Chan Thomas book 1945 The Adam and eave story . When pole ice melts in the north and builds in the South ...every 5 to 10,000 years and explains how Atlantis ended up underwater

This is an interesting symptom / outcome, however it's the kind of thing that would be used by a climate denialist or someone who want to minimalize or ignore climate change to say... Meh, that's not so bad. Just like telling them sea-levels could be 3 meters higher by 2100. It's a point by which to shrug and say... Hey, can we increase economic growth by another percentage point this year if we burn just a little more fossil fuels!?

Oh no we lose a second

@alanlu8625

2 ай бұрын

Nono, actually we got a second 🎉

50th

Hey Paul your audio volume is still extremely low. It is very difficult to follow your very interesting podcasts. Cheers

@stephentrueman4843

2 ай бұрын

using headphones it's fine. Check out Loudness Equalization for your computer

@fee_beezz

2 ай бұрын

It's perfect for me

- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us one thousand years to the past of the universe. Today April 01, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 75 thousand years ago. On january 20, 2050 the state of our universe will be at the point 14 million and 500 thousand years in the past. On september 15, 2100 the state of our universe will be at the point 33 million years in the past. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA.

We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago.

Earth has 259 billion cubic miles of molten rock and 310 million cubic miles of ocean. Polar ice caps are inconsequential

@langdons2848

2 ай бұрын

Only if you don't understand how timekeeping works and how it applies to things like satellite navigation.

@abody499

2 ай бұрын

oh well that's it then. His peer reviewed paper is in the bin after the youtube comments have spoken

@JosephOlson-ld2td

2 ай бұрын

@lang > adding minor mass, on axis of rotation has zero effect > Mechanics of Solids

@langdons2848

2 ай бұрын

@@JosephOlson-ld2td removing mass from around the axis of rotation and moving it to the equator has measurable effects. Or did you not understand the whole point Paul's video was making?

@langdons2848

2 ай бұрын

@@abody499 got love the armchair physicists. Where would we be without them? 🙄