New Campaigne Platform for Al Gore

[Non-Typical Solutions]

I saw this yesterday and my wheels, as small as they may be got me to thinking that I might beat Al Gore to the punch if I was fast enough here.

 

New global warming indicator due to the shortage of the day. This caused by the 8.8 Earthquake in Chile.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/...uake/index.html

 

(CNN) -- The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.

 

The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

 

A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet.

 

When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. And the rotation rate determines the length of a day.

 

"Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation," Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said while explaining the phenomenon in 2005.

 

Scientists use the analogy of a skater. When he pulls in his arms, he spins faster.

 

That's because pulling in his arms changes the distribution of the skater's mass and therefore the speed of his rotation.

 

Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used a computer model to determine how the magnitude 8.8 quake that struck Chile on February 27 may have affected Earth.

 

See scenes of devastation from the quake

 

He determined that the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis about 3 inches (8 centimeters). The figure axis is one around which Earth's mass is balanced. That shift in axis is what may have shortened days.

 

Such changes aren't unheard of.

 

The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 that generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.

 

On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China were filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.

 

 

[DesertBull]

Right now, DC is scrambling to figure out a way to tax earthquakes.

[.270]

heck, no wonder it seems like every year is shorter than the one before. i thought it was just old age. it's earthquakes. there is earthquakes all the time.

 

purty soon we'll hafta take out a whole month. i say lets take out february. gameholler won't hafta make that trip to punxatawny anymore. Lark.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Man.....I better keep my mouth shut!!

 

Went to church yesterday and was reminded of this little bit of scripture from the bible:

 

"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."

 

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.......................