Rising sea levels are making each day slightly longer, and there's no sign it's going to stop, a new study funded in part by NASA and the Canadian government has found.
Relative to the age of the Earth, the 24-hour day is fairly new, a height reached after billions of years of growth. Five-hundred million years ago,Historically, the rate of increase attributable to climate change has been slow, hovering between 0.3 and one added daily millisecond each 100 years between 1900 and 2000. But as the industrial revolution's aftereffects have intensified, the rate has grown, clocking in at roughly 1.
According to a recent study from the University of California San Diego, the impacts of climate change on the Earth's rotation might further complicate when and how those leap seconds need to be inserted; an additional piece of a vexing international puzzle.
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