Is there anything that global warming can’t do? It is blamed for torrential rains, droughts, and even snowstorms (somehow). It can raise the level of the oceans, though that apparently doesn’t stop billionaires with private jets from purchasing seaside mansions. It can create deserts. And now, at least according to one report from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, global warming can alter time itself. I hadn’t noticed anything odd about the passage of time aside from the annoying ritual of daylight savings, but since this is coming from supposedly reputable scientists, I suppose we’d better take a look and see what they’re going on about. (NBC News)
The author of the study, Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, said that as ice at the poles melts, it changes where the Earth’s mass is concentrated….
