[LEAPSECS] This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet -Brooks

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <17038998.837509.1421292283082.JavaMail.yahoo at jws100167.mail.ne1.yah
oo.com>, Alex Currant via LEAPSECS writes:

>Who is right?

That reminds me, has anybody tried to do the math on climate change ?

The main effect is (probably?) going to be the thermal expansion of
the worlds oceans.

I did a quick back of the envelope calculation modeling the earth
as a sphere radius 6367 km, covered by a 4 km thick shell of water.

Increasing the thickness of the water by one meter but retaining
its mass, I get a realtive change in angular momentum of 6e-11 which
is in the order of a millisecond per year.

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