W-O-R-L-D E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E
H-E-L-P!!!!!!
N-O-R-T-H P-O-L-E I-S S-H-I-F-T-I-N-G
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
EVEN A POLAR BEAR WILL BE AFFECTED IN ITS TRADITIONAL HABITAT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS
The effect of global warming is certain to get to another
worrying level very soon as fears are rife that the position of the North Pole
was actually shifting from its original position.
In his response to the New Office Desk ,Paedia Express
Multimedia’s enquiries on the matter in Lagos,Nigeria ,an impeccable source who spoke to this reporter
said that the issue of global warming
was real and it was high time stakeholders wake up to the reality around the world.
He recalled that
recently in the United States while on a
working visit to Boston and New York he saw two contrasting weather variations
in a country at Spring and not even at winter period of the year.
He explained that it snowed in Boston ,The United States all day while he was visiting
recently at a time it was not supposed to be snowing at all since it was spring
time.
He revealed that all of his adult life he had never had any
attack of heat rash but he was shocked to discover that in 2016 there was an
attack of heat rashes.
He laughed it off when this reporter queried him on why there
was silence in the local and global media sector over the matter and in a terse
reply he simply said:ignorance and refusal to look for information.
His words:”everything will happen and you are thinking that
you are dreaming then you will have to wake up from it as Noah’s
ark may be re-ignited”
“on what could be done to prevent the impending disaster ,he
simply declared “Doyou want us to go biblical
but even at that it is already too late”
“it is not yet an open issue for discourse in the local and
global press but even some top scientists are aware of this but will not speak out
for fear of causing a panic or stampede”
The North and South Poles are the two major pillars the entire
planet earth restrs upon and if there is
any form of shift in either of them then there will be a disaster as there will be several cases of
sudden rise in the sea and ocean levels,earthquakes ,avalanche .mudslides among
others all happening about the same time.
The North Pole suddenly changed direction and started drifting east around
the year 2000. Now scientists have uncovered the reason — and found that
humans are to blame.The geographic North Pole, located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, is the northern end of Earth's rotational axis. Its location, and that of the South Pole with it, affects GPS measurements, along with results from Earth-observing satellites and ground-based observatories, so keeping track of the pole is important to scientists.
They have been tracking its exact location for 115 years and found that it has drifted as much as 12 metres over that time. Generally, it had been moving in the direction of Canada about seven or eight centimetres a year.
That's because when you remove some mass from a rotating object, the axis tends to move in the direction where you lost the mass. And North America has been losing mass since its ice sheets melted at the end of the last ice age.
But around the year 2000, the North Pole suddenly changed direction.
"It's no longer moving toward Hudson Bay, but instead toward the British Isles," said Surendra Adhikari, a post-doctoral researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in a news release. "That's a massive swing."
In order to do that, they used data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. The twin satellites, launched by NASA and the German Aerospace Agency in 2002, remap the Earth's gravitational field and the distribution of its mass each month. The Earth's mass and gravity get redistributed with large movements of water such as snow and ice melting or accumulating on different parts of the Earth.
Adhikari and Ivins found that the North Pole was being pulled by melting ice sheets and reduced mass in Greenland, ice mass loss from west Antarctica, and ice mass gain in east Antarctica. That explained about 70 per cent of the movement, but didn't explain why the North Pole was heading east.
Looking east of Greenland, they realized that the additional mass loss in that direction was caused by the depletion of aquifers and drought in the Indian subcontinent and the region around the Caspian Sea. By adding that in, they could explain nearly all of the North Pole's movement and its direction.
While the amount of mass loss was much smaller than that caused by the melting ice sheets, it was happening at around 45 degrees north — an area that has a very strong effect on the spin axis.
The researchers realized this might also solve a long-standing mystery — why the North Pole's location wobbles east and west about 0.5 to 1.5 metres every six to 14 years. When they looked at the satellite measurements, they found that an eastward wobble corresponded to wet periods in Eurasia and a westward wobble corresponded to dry periods.
The researchers wrote in the journal Science Advances that the findings suggest that the motion of the North Pole may "offer yet unexploited information about the intensities, duration and globality of wet and dry periods" over the past 115 years.
That kind of knowledge could help improve climate models, they added, and "will have important ramifications for climate change during the 21st century, as we now face an increased intensity of the global water cycle."
Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, who wasn't part of the study, told The Associated Press that the discovery humans are making the North Pole move "highlights how real and profoundly large an impact humans are having on the planet."
Jianli Chen, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas Center for Space Research, first attributed the pole shift to climate change in 2013, and he said this new study takes his work a step further.
"There is nothing to worry about," said Chen, who wasn't part of the NASA study. "It is just another interesting effect of climate change."
Scientists have previously found that humans aren't just making the Earth spin on a slightly different axis — they're also making it spin more slowly.
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