BBC claims that climate change is causing an ‘unprecedented’ slowing of Earth’s rotation – But a meteorologist rebuts as it ‘biologically & technologically insignificant,’ noting ‘it would take more than 75,000 years’ to slow rotation by one second

Is there anything that cLiEmAtE cHaNgE can’t do?

BBC News claims that climate change is causing an “unprecedented” slowing of Earth’s rotation.

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They cite a new study published in the journal JGR Solid Earth which claims that water from melting… pic.twitter.com/GezHY78xI0

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