Global warming is shifting the North Pole to Europe

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A study recently published in Science Advances suggests that climate change is affecting the planet in ways we could not even imagine. The authors of this study, Surendra Adhikari and Erik R. Ivins (both NASA JPL), believe that the mass redistribution of the melting icecaps created in the oceans, is causing the North Pole has begun to move east, towards Europe .

Advance the north pole toward us at full speed? No, the truth is we do not talk about anything worrying. According to Surendra Adhikari , the current rate at which migrates the pole is 10 centimeters per year . Or at least that it has happened since 2000 to the present, and again we are the culprits. Speaking of Adhikari to National Geographic : "What we have shown is that the ice melted and a pattern contienental water storage, are combining to cause a drastic move in the direction of the pole."

As you know, the axis of rotation of any body in space may change if gravitationally is influenced by something, or mass distribution varies. 3,500 million years ago, our neighbour planet Mars, suffered a severe case of variation of the rotational axis, which reached a whopping 20 degrees, when a huge volcano erupted. Now is the Earth that undergoes its own axial alteration , although fortunately we not speak something so huge and sudden as what happened on the red planet.


Scientists now know that the Earth is warming at a rate never seen since the time of the dinosaurs , which is causing a huge mass redistribution as polar ice caps melt. For the two co - authors of this study must be a relationship between the movement observed at the poles and global warming , so they created computer simulations to see if their assumption was correct. And so it is! The Greenland ice sheet, on their own, have lost a mass of 3.900 million tons since 2003, which have gone to the oceans, which is a huge movement of surface mass.

Each year, the western side of Antarctica loses 136,000 million tons of ice, while the eastern side wins 82.000 million tons. At this rate, by the year 2500 they will eventually melt all the ice in the Antarctic, and sea levels would rise 15 meters . Regarding the change in the Earth 's rotation axis, the north pole has barely budged 1.6 meters since 2000, and continue to do so. It is true, as I said before, it's not something to worry about, but it should at least serve to remind us that climate change is affecting almost anything , and we must act without delay.