Spin Cycle Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and — here's the kicker — it will alter how we measure time in the future. That's the crazy (and yet logical) conclusion that Duncan Agnew, geophysicist and professor at University of California, San Diego, reached in his […]
Humanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive melting, and this is slowing Earth's rotation, challenging official timekeeping standards.