The Earth is Spinning More Quickly: Why is It Doing So?

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https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115541992/the-earth-is-spinning-faster-than-ever-and-its-making-our-days-shorter

Trying to shake us off.

Is this to do with the polar flip ?

Wow, we gained .2 seconds in the last year. Big whoop.

From PhysOrg:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-earth-faster-usual-experts-shortest.html

The shortened days are caused by the Earth spinning faster than usual, Interesting Engineering reported.

But why is the Earth spinning faster? Scientists are not completely certain, but they have a few competing explanations:

Changes to the climate or climate systems, such as melting and freezing of glaciers or winds, whose shifting weight pulls on the Earth, The New York Post reported.

Earthquakes and other seismic activity which move mass toward the center of the Earth, like a spinning person pulling their arms in, The Guardian reported.

Movement within the Earth's molten core that shifts mass on the planet, Forbes reported.

Ocean circulation and pressure on the seabed that pulls on the Earth's axis, ABC reported.

The "Chandler Wobble"—a natural shifting of the Earth's axis due to the planet not being perfectly spherical—could be linked to the spinning speeds, timeanddate.com reported.

Australian astronomer Fred Watson explained to ABC, saying "when you start looking at the real nitty gritty, you realize that Earth is not just a solid ball that is spinning."

"It's got liquid on the inside, it's got liquid on the outside, and it's got an atmosphere and all of these things slosh around a bit," Watson told ABC.

That sloshing around can influence the speed of the Earth's spin, ABC reported.

Some scientists think this could be the beginning of a new period of shorter days, Interesting Engineering reported.

I thought I was getting a bit dizzy lately! Hang on to your balls, folks!
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1.50 milliseconds ahead of schedule. We are doomed. Yet again.

daggone it, i hate when that happens.

Duplicate thread to here:

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=407870

if only there could be a way of generating electricity from this wobbly bobbly stuff.

The earth needs to stop doing this! I'm getting old too fast as it is.

No wonder I can't get enough done in a day.