Has the Earth's Axis Shifted

Mike

Mike

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I wondered about this yesterday, it wasn't daylight, until 8:30,
then it was dark again at 3 o'clock, that is six and a half hours
of daylight, it was cloudy, so that might have had something
to do with the dark!

Have any of you noticed anything similar?

Mike.
 

The axis does shift, but I don't think it happens at a rate where we can notice a difference during an average lifetime. The magnetic poles shift too.
 
Here’s some good reading on this subject — “chicken Little The Sky Is Falling” and conspiracy theorists should enjoy blowing this way out of proportion 🤠🤠

”Earth is not a perfect sphere. When it rotates on its spin axis -- an imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles -- it drifts and wobbles. These spin-axis movements are scientifically referred to as "polar motion." Measurements for the 20th century show that the spin axis drifted about 4 inches (10 centimeters) per year. Over the course of a century, that becomes more than 11 yards (10 meters).”

Scientists ID three causes of Earth's spin axis drift - NASA Science
 

From Smithsonian Magazine

From this analysis, the researchers estimate that the axis is moving 1.7 inches per year due to groundwater removal. Of the factors the study looked at, pumping groundwater was the second-largest contributor to the axis drifting, behind the melting Greenland ice sheet.

The paper calls attention to just how much water humans have pumped, as Manoochehr Shirzaei, a geophysicist at Virginia Tech who did not contribute to the study, tells New Scientist. “The precise number doesn’t matter really,” he tells the publication. “What matters is that the volume is so gigantic that it can impact the polar drift of the Earth.”
 
I remember reading about this at the time. Couldn't recall detail so I asked AI.

Me: Where was the huge natural disaster that actually caused a wobble and a shift in the earth's tilt?

Copilot: One significant natural disaster that caused a noticeable wobble in the Earth's tilt was the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. This massive undersea earthquake, which occurred on December 26, 2004, had a magnitude of 9.1-9.3 and caused devastating tsunamis that affected several countries around the Indian Ocean.

The earthquake was so powerful that it altered the distribution of the Earth's mass, causing a slight shift in the planet's rotation and a wobble in its tilt.

: NASA Study : Yahoo News : Times of India

There is more..
 
Thank you all for your replies, I have never experienced,
any days as short as around 6 hours of daylight in London,
the clouds were white, so didn't contribute much to the
loss of daylight.

The axis was the only thing that I could think of, moving.

Mike.
 

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