Study reveals rapid melting of glaciers likely shifted Earth's axis
Study reveals rapid melting of glaciers likely shifted Earth's axis Thwaites Glacier/Wikimedia Commons Since 1980, the planet's north and south poles have moved roughly four meters in distance, and new research shows that shifts in the Earth's rotational axis have accelerated since the 1990s as a result of the widespread melting of glaciersâa clear manifestation, scientists say, of the climate emergency. "Faster ice melting under global warming was the most likely cause of the directional change of the polar drift in the 1990s," Shanshan Dengâa researcher from the In...
Source: alternet.org