Polar wander linked to climate change : Nature News & Comment
Global warming is changing the location of Earth’s geographic poles, according to a new study pending in Geophysical Research Letters...
From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted southeast toward northern Labrador, Canada, at a rate of about 2 milliarcseconds —or roughly 6 centimetres — per year. But in 2005, the pole changed course and began galloping east toward Greenland at a rate of more than 7 milliarcseconds per year.
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