Not too long ago, a gentleman approached me and claimed the Earth was falling into the Sun, and part of his reasoning was that the Earth's poles were wobbling.
Still, I didn't find this to be a rather convincing piece of evidence, and let me tell you why.
You see, first of all, the planet does wobble, it's a known fact, and it probably has forever, for all we know, meaning for billions of years it has been wobbling on its poles.
WikiPedia notes the Chandler Wobble: "Richard Gross (2001) at JPL in CA used computer simulations to discover the source of the Chandler Wobble.
Gross found that two thirds of the 'wobble' was caused by fluctuating pressure on the sea bottom due to temperature & salinity changes & wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans.
The remaining third is due to atmospheric fluctuations.
" Would it be better if the planet didn't wobble? Well, mathematically speaking it would be.
After all you don't want your washing machine wobbling do you.
Yet, on another hand that would mean there were not any weather flow changes in the atmosphere or any ocean currents, or changes there.
It would also mean very little space weather too.
Meaning, Earth would be much different, and if you think Al Gore's dire doom and gloom predictions were bad due to global warming, AGW Theory, well, a non-wobbling Earth could be worse, as that would mean very little flow of the ocean or atmosphere; we'd cook, albeit slowly.
Indeed, I guess what I am saying is; don't worry about it, the earth wiggles and wobbles but it isn't going to fall down or experience orbital decay and fry us all as we fall into the Sun.
That's just not going to happen my friends.
Now then, I can say this; changes in the ice melt in the North Arctic Sea will change weather patterns and could modify both the flows of the ocean and the atmosphere there.
Thus, change the wobble effect to some degree, however how much no one knows, yet anyway.
Therefore, we should expect changes and not be alarmed, as we have no idea what the wobbling effect amount was prior to the last ice-age, so, we might be pleasantly surprised or a little spooked, but do not worry about it much.
At least that is my professional scientific opinion.
I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Still, I didn't find this to be a rather convincing piece of evidence, and let me tell you why.
You see, first of all, the planet does wobble, it's a known fact, and it probably has forever, for all we know, meaning for billions of years it has been wobbling on its poles.
WikiPedia notes the Chandler Wobble: "Richard Gross (2001) at JPL in CA used computer simulations to discover the source of the Chandler Wobble.
Gross found that two thirds of the 'wobble' was caused by fluctuating pressure on the sea bottom due to temperature & salinity changes & wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans.
The remaining third is due to atmospheric fluctuations.
" Would it be better if the planet didn't wobble? Well, mathematically speaking it would be.
After all you don't want your washing machine wobbling do you.
Yet, on another hand that would mean there were not any weather flow changes in the atmosphere or any ocean currents, or changes there.
It would also mean very little space weather too.
Meaning, Earth would be much different, and if you think Al Gore's dire doom and gloom predictions were bad due to global warming, AGW Theory, well, a non-wobbling Earth could be worse, as that would mean very little flow of the ocean or atmosphere; we'd cook, albeit slowly.
Indeed, I guess what I am saying is; don't worry about it, the earth wiggles and wobbles but it isn't going to fall down or experience orbital decay and fry us all as we fall into the Sun.
That's just not going to happen my friends.
Now then, I can say this; changes in the ice melt in the North Arctic Sea will change weather patterns and could modify both the flows of the ocean and the atmosphere there.
Thus, change the wobble effect to some degree, however how much no one knows, yet anyway.
Therefore, we should expect changes and not be alarmed, as we have no idea what the wobbling effect amount was prior to the last ice-age, so, we might be pleasantly surprised or a little spooked, but do not worry about it much.
At least that is my professional scientific opinion.
I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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