-------- In message <[email protected]>, "Ma tsakis, Demetrios" writes:
>I am unaware of any authoritative computations about whether the >very recent rotational speed-up is due to what is loosely called >"global warming" or if it is a classical decadal fluctuation related >to the motion of the Earth's core. We have had almost overlapping hiatuses in global warming and leap seconds in the last 10-15 years. Volcanoes have just now been implicated in about 1/6th of the former: http://www.livescience.com/43588-volcanoes-global-warming-pause.html This makes my coincidence detector rattle and googling a little bit found this article: http://theconversation.com/could-there-really-be-such-a-thing-as-volcano-season-32060 If nothing else it sounds like we may indeed live in interesting times. I can see the earth rotation <--> volcano eruption link going both ways, as a matter of stresses in one direction and lubrication in the other. As interesting as this might be intellectually, if melting ice-sheets case an order of magnitude more volcano eruptions leap seconds will not be our most pressing problem. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | 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 [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
