As we approach mid-2025, experts are predicting that earth ’s rotation. · since 2020, each year has brought records for the shortest day ever, with earth ’ s spin accelerating by milliseconds. So far this year, july 9 and july 22 have been. · earth s rotation is mysteriously speeding up, making our days shorter. · while global warming has had considerable negative impacts on earth , when it comes to our timekeeping, it has served to counteract the forces that are speeding up earth ’s spin. Well explore why this is happening and what it means for our future. · there are a number of reasons the earth may be changing its speed this way. · while some events have been known to change earth ’s rotation – the 9. 0 japan earthquake in 2011 shortened the day by 1. 8 microseconds – no one knows what’s causing the current trend. Adding a negative leap second. · earth is spinning so fast that global timekeepers are considering something thats never been done before: But it’s not clear yet just which explanation is responsible this time. The likeliest cause is the position of the. · this summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of earth ’ s spins —those occurring on july 10, july 22 and august 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past.

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