[LEAPSECS] Ohh dear, leap this...

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 3 14:46:28 EDT 2009



"The weight of the ice forces down the land beneath it. If
the ice melts away, they say the underlying land will
rebound, causing Earth's axis of rotation to shift about
500 metres. They say this will move water from the southern
Atlantic and Pacific oceans northward toward North America
and into the southern Indian Ocean."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Antarctic+melt+could+shift+Earth+rotation+Study/1261393/story.html

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