has found that the melting of polar ice due to human-driven climate change has slightly slowed the earth’s rotation and “could affect how we measure time”.
This, the study found, is being influenced by global warming, adding that the melting ice is delaying the leap second by three years, pushing it from 2026 to 2029. “Increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity, has decreased the angular velocity of Earth more rapidly than before,” he said.
“Even a few years ago, the expectation was that leap seconds would always be positive, and happen more and more often.
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