Lots of things cause Earth’s spinning top-like axis to shift — earthquakes, El Nino, and even volcano eruptions. Now scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say that global warming could actually alter the tilt of our planet’s axis due to instability from melting ice sheets! Scientists have long theorized that climate change could cause a negligible amount of movement in the axis, but NASA’s research shows that the problem could be much more severe than was initially thought. In fact, it could be as drastic as the northern pole shifting by 1.5 centimeters every year towards Hawaii and Alaska.
The shifting pole won’t speed up climate change itself, but it could potentially act as a measure of sea level rise. In other words, the more the pole shifts each year, the faster ice sheets are melting. It’s not a foolproof plan–scientists have no way of telling if a shift in the axis is because of a massive earthquake in Japan or a giant ice sheet turning into fresh water–but it is one more way to calculate the effects of global warming on the planet.
Via New Scientist
OR the tilting axis is causing climate change…
what’s causing it to tilt then? smart ass…
Galactic alignment, solar flairs, 2012
Would a more tilted axis change the seasons/weather and therefore affect climate change?
A more tlted axis would cause seasonal and climatory changes. As the axis tilts more toward the sun, it causes the poles to get more sunlight than usual. It shortens the days for us however lengthens the days at the poles. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Climate doesn’t change by itself. Someting or someone has to change it. The earth and universe for that matter is God’s creation. May HE do with it what HE pleases.We don’t know everyting because we’re not meant to know everythng.
Gravitaional pull in space is causing the earth’s axis to tilt..There are numerouse reason’s for global warming..But the earths axis are tilting and causing global warming, and climate change..What causing axis to tilt? Like I said grazitaional pull in space. I am actually doing a research paper on this right now. There is way too much to explain; all I can say is gravitaional pull in space.
there are seasons of the earth as there are seasons of the year,throughout its life the earth has rotated on its axis. slowly and some times violently,there was a time when the arctic and antarctic were in line with the equator,and not caused by continental drift,its natural,stop fussing and arguing, accept and deal with the birth pangs as they arise,