-------- Demetrios Matsakis writes: > rise, and the Earth gets rounder. But the same people who do that math > say today's warming, dramatic as it may be for our biosphere, is > too little for this particular effect. People have gotten that stuff > wrong since George Darwin, though.
I think the basic redistribution of water will be a wash, pun intended, for instance the water in the Greenland icecape gets lowered some kilometers, but a lot of that water will end up in the central pacific, right on the Equator, due to the local gravitation. If we get a negative leap, it will be because of "noise", both from whatever is going on under our feet, but possibly also from climate change transient phenomena, the crust under Greenland bouncing up under lighter load, ocean current modulations or, more unlikely reconfigurations. But still eyeballing the LOD curve, I'd give it 50/50 before 2038. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs