But the melting of polar ice has delayed that possibility ... due in part to the moon’s gravitational pull, slows the Earth’s rotation. Meanwhile, since the last Ice Age, the Earth’s crust ...

As the ice sheets melt, all that mass shifts away from the poles and toward the equator, reducing that pull and also causing Earth’s rotation to slow down. To understand why this happens ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

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Melting ice caps are slowing the rotation of the Earth and could delay the next leap ... and towards the Equator has worked to slightly slow down its spin. “It’s yet another way of impressing ...

Melting ice shifts Earth's mass from the poles to the bulging center, which slows the rotation much like a spinning ice skater slows when extending their arms out to their sides, he said.

Melting ice masses also alter the Earth's axis of rotation. Over long timeframes, this polar motion can move the rotation axis points on the Earth's surface by about ten meters per hundred years.

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