03-29-2024
Global timekeeping: Climate change has slowed Earth's rotationWrestling with the concept of daylight savings can be baffling for many people, but imagine the task ahead for the world’s timekeepers as they investigate the impact of climate change on the spin of our planet and, consequently, our methods of time measurement. However, according to a recent study led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), it appears that the effects of global warming might inadvertently assist timekeepers by postponing the potential introduction of the first-ever "negative leap...
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