[RndTbl] Climate change is messing with GPS time-keeping!

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Thu Aug 5 15:51:56 CDT 2021


I was just reporting on what I read, and it didn't go into details about 
specific mechanisms or causes.  It's not a stretch, though, that the 
motion of oceans and atmosphere have been affected, so that's a possible 
explanation.

Gilbert

On 2021-08-05 3:31 p.m., Daulton wrote:
> Hi Gilbert,
> 
> How is it you propose that "climate change" is actually speeding up the rotation of the earth? This seems like a very long stretch of an assertion. According to other sources, "the speed of the Earth’s rotation varies constantly due to the motion of its molten core, oceans and atmosphere, as well as the effect of celestial bodies such as the Moon".
> 
> Daulton
>   
> On Thursday, August 05, 2021 14:44 CDT, "Gilbert E. Detillieux" <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>   
>> For those of you who took in Wyatt's May presentation on setting up a
>> GPS-based NTP server,...
>>
>> https://muug.ca/meetings/20-21.html#may
>>
>> ... you may be interested in this bit of weirdness...
>>
>> https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1422163289518313474?s=21
>> TIL: Climate change has resulted in the earth spinning faster,
>> cancelling out leap seconds.
>>
>> “As I previously said, the reason it will affect live GPS is due to, and
>> I hate to say it, global warming causing the earth to speed up,
>> unexpectedly.”
>>
>> So, now you know!...  :)
>>
>> Gilbert

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Gilbert E. Detillieux        E-mail:  <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science    Web:     http://cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
University of Manitoba
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