Melting ice in Greenland may have helped to shift the location of the North Pole.Oops, there's that pesky tell again: "may have", "have helped". I didn't catch the "perhaps coulda" but no doubt it's in there somewhere. And peer-reviewed! Because Science! But thanks for all the sweet, sweet grants, American taxpayers!
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Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet — and to a lesser extent, ice loss in other parts of the globe — have helped to shift the North Pole several centimetres east each year since 2005.
Global Warming: is there anything it can't do?
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snark....."perhaps coulda".....
I just GOTTA remember that one!
BUT...it's for the children (and polar bears!)
gfa
It might not have, yet ... but it's fixin' to!
What? You didn't know that's the REASON Uranus is tipped 98 degrees? Uranusians burned way too many fossil fuels, expelled too many chloroflourocarbons, and raised too many methane-belching Uranusian cows, which caused massive overheating and polar ice cap melting. Eventually it got so hot the solid planet vaporized and the whole thing fell over.
Hey, that bit of satire is about as legitimate and factual as the AGW "hockey stick" graphs!
Shoulda, coulda...
It occurs to me that the earth has experienced periods where 100% of its land mass was on one side of the planet. If this didn't cause catastrophic pole shift, why would a slight melting of a smallish ice cap (which we aren't even sure is really shrinking and in fact may be getting bigger by thickening in the center faster than the edges are pulling back) cause a shift?
Because they won't get funding for their polar experiments if it didn't. I know...
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