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Checking The News (Original Post) JimGinPA Sep 2018 OP
K&R. In case you needed even worse news. Now there's this: Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2018 #1
That pretty much sums it up. BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #2

Guy Whitey Corngood

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1. K&R. In case you needed even worse news. Now there's this:
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 01:03 PM
Sep 2018
https://www.livescience.com/63655-why-earth-wobbles.html

Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why

Humans are responsible for some of the wobble in Earth's spin.

Since 1899, the Earth's axis of spin has shifted about 34 feet (10.5 meters). Now, research quantifies the reasons why and finds that a third is due to melting ice and rising sea levels, particularly in Greenland — placing the blame on the doorstep of anthropogenic climate change.

Another third of the wobble is due to land masses expanding upward as the glaciers retreat and lighten their load. The final portion is the fault of the slow churn of the mantle, the viscous middle layer of the planet.
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