Chilean Earthquake Helps solve Global Warming

They say there's a silver lining to every cloud. I'm not an atmospheric expert like Al Gore, but I'm fairly sure the recent earthquake in Chile may provide some relief to the onerous global warming problem, especially if NASA can be believed. And they can be; I used to be a rocket scientist at JSC.

Bloomberg.com reports that, "The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said."

“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”

Even when I took calculus-based physics in college I didn't learn what the heck a milliarcsecond is, but the bottom line is this - a shorter day means less sunlight, thus, less global warming. Good news for those cute polar bears that Gore trots out.

Bloomberg goes on to say that Santa Maria Island, off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake." Well, I guess that means there will be a place to go when coastal cities subside, like in Gore's science fiction films.

Bottom line? This post was written to be tongue in cheek, so please, no hate mail from members of the Holy Church of Climate Change Kool-Aid Drinkers like last time. You know who you are. Geeze.



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