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VERY QUICKLY25 Jul 2024
Humans have made the days on Earth longer. Slow clap.
- According to new research, melting ice sheets are making our days longer.
- The melting of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets, due to global warming, is literally fattening up Earth, slowing its rotations, and lengthening the day.
- The increase is in milliseconds, but this is enough to disrupt internet traffic, space travel, financial transactions, and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.
- The rate of increase we’ve seen per century over the past 3,000 years, is expected to now occur within this century alone. Yay us!
