Recovered Whales, Old Salmon Cans, Climate Change & Time
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The Impact of Climate Change on Earth's Rotation and Time Measurement
Exploring how climate change affects the Earth's rotation dynamics and the insertion of leap seconds to account for variances in spinning speed. Factors like earthquakes and melting ice sheets influencing the length of a day are discussed, with analogies like a spinning figure skater used to explain Earth's rotational changes.
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