Serious SHOCKING CHANGE to planet earth SWELLING New Tallest Mountain!

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The mountain that tops Everest (because the earth is fat)


Mount Everest from an aerial view taken over Nepal. AP file photo
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ELI ROSENBERG
PUBLISHED: 5:53 PM, MAY 17, 2016
NEW YORK — Move over, Everest. Scientists say that by one measure, the world’s highest peak is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.

The summit of Chimborazo, an inactive volcano in the Andes, rises about 20,500 feet above sea level, far short of Everest’s renowned 29,029 feet. But it’s a different story when you measure from the centre of Earth: Chimborazo’s apex rises the farthest, at about 21 million feet or 6,384km, while Everest’s doesn’t even crack the top 20.

This is because, while Earth is not flat, it is also not a perfect sphere. The planet flattens at its poles and bulges slightly around its waistline — don’t we all? — making its radius about 21km greater at the equator. Chimborazo is close to the equator, but Everest is 28 degrees north latitude, nearly one-third of the way to the pole.

Mount Chimborazo has been anthropomorphised as a man in a stormy relationship with a shorter and more active female companion, the Tungurahua volcano, which is known to belch ash that lands on Chimborazo’s icy slopes. Dr Josefina Vasquez, an archaeologist at the Universidad San Francisco in Quito, said that Chimborazo “has been venerated since pre-Columbian times” and is “still a sacred mountain where it’s thought to be close to God”.

On a recent climb to commemorate the 280th anniversary of a 1736 mission by adventurer Charles Marie de La Condamine, a research team led by the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement in France found that Chimborazo was about 15 feet shorter than previously thought, but reaffirmed its status as the highest from the Earth’s centre.

So why does Everest get all the glory? It’s all about the climb.

Scaling Everest typically requires a 10-day trek to base camp, six weeks of acclimatising, and a seven- to nine-day trip to the top. Climbing Chimborazo can be done in about two weeks, with a one- or two-day hike after acclimatization, according to Mr Todd Burleson, president of Alpine Ascents International, a mountaineering company based in Seattle.

“Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t belittle the mountain,” he said. “It’s an excellent training ground for big mountains.”

Ouch. NEW YORK TIMES

 

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How bad man had fucked up planet earth could change height of tallest mountains.

In other geographical studies, found earth rotation wobble is already altered, by global warming, that Polar Ice caps melted so much so that, there is greatly reduced solid ice weight at earth's poles, and weight moved towards equator as liquid water, spinning at different properties. Solid Ice is frozen to adhere to planet, while liquid water flows freely thus do not follow the earth's self-rotation as closely as solid frozen ice.

 

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Man surely court own total mass extinction by exploitation of earth resources to this extend.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...e-way-the-earth-wobbles-on-its-axis-says-nasa



Melting ice sheets changing the way the Earth wobbles on its axis, says Nasa
‘Dramatic’ shift in polar motion attributed to effects of global warming and the impact humans are having on the planet

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Global warming is changing the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new Nasa study has found.

Melting ice sheets, especially in Greenland, are changing the distribution of weight on Earth. And that has caused both the North Pole and the wobble, which is called polar motion, to change course, according to a study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances.


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Scientists and navigators have been accurately measuring the true pole and polar motion since 1899, and for almost the entire 20th century they migrated a bit toward Canada. But that has changed with this century, and now it’s moving toward England, according to study lead author Surendra Adhikari at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab.

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“The recent shift from the 20th-century direction is very dramatic,” Adhikari said.

While scientists say the shift is harmless, it is meaningful. Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, who wasn’t part of the study, said that “this highlights how real and profoundly large an impact humans are having on the planet.”

Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 272 trillion kilograms of ice a year, and that affects the way the Earth wobbles in a manner similar to a figure skater lifting one leg while spinning, said Nasa scientist Eirk Ivins, the study’s co-author.

On top of that, West Antarctica loses 124 trillion kgs of ice and East Antarctica gains about 74 trillion kgs of ice yearly, helping tilt the wobble further, Ivins said.

They all combine to pull polar motion toward the east, Adhikari said.

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.”