December 01, 2024

91- Climate Change and Day Length

5 minutes

Back to talking about the impacts of climate change, and this time it's something pretty fundamental that's being impacted- the length of a day...

Sources for this episode:

Agnew, D. C. (2024), A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming. Nature 628: 333-336.

Mitchell, R. N. and Kirscher, U. (2023), Mid-Proterozoic day length stalled by tidal resonance. Nature Geoscience 16: 567-569.

Scaife, A. A., Hermanson, L., van Niekerk, A., Andrews, M., Baldwin, M. P., Belcher, S., Bett, P., Comer, R. E., Dunstone, N. J., Geen, R., Hardiman, S. C., Ineson, S., Knight, J., Nie, Y., Ren, H.-L. and Smith, D. (2024), Long-range predictability of extratropical climate and the length of day. Nature Geoscience 15: 789-793.

Author unknown, BBC (2011), Why the Moon is getting further away from Earth (online) (Accessed 30/04/2024).

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