Changing weather patterns and more explained

Changing weather patterns and more explained by increasing gyration of the Earth. (By an Occasional Correspondent)

It is a well-known fact that the earth has a small amount of gyration about its axis. Now scientists from three collaborating universities, strategically located, approximately equidistant on the earth’s surface, have been able to measure an increase in the degree of gyration that has essentially been occurring over the last 100 years or so.

The combined research effort of the universities; Delta Junction in the Tanana Valley of Alaska, Yakustk in Sakah Republic of Siberia and Molodejnaya in Antartica, have, as a result of combined effort, been able to determine an increase in magnitude of gyration. These three universities are jointly funded by the little known research grants provided by the United States of America and the Russian Federation. The research scientist are recruited and contracted under a scientific secrecy agreement.

The research results have only limited release due to perceived sensitivity of the global economy to such information and the need for diplomacy in informing countries with major economic influence of the potential impact on world trade. Much work is going on by economists associated with these universities to develop a model to assist in the required redistribution of trade and hence wealth to avoid a global recession of a magnitude previously unimagined.

To put into perspective the explanation of the research findings one must go back around 600 years to when the global economy first started. That is when the traders in their ships visited lands hitherto unvisited and the mass of traded goods was insignificant. For a few hundred years global trade grew mostly on domestic consumables. Spices, tea, tobacco, silk etc. were the main commodities traded. The mass of these was quite small in relation to the mass of the earth.

From the start of the twentieth century the commodities traded began to change. Coal, oil and iron ore for example began to be moved over the oceans in bulk carriers, first in 100’s of tonnes at a time but now 10’s of thousands of tonnes, even more than 100 thousand tonnes in a single ship.

Most of the movement of these enormous tonnages is from the southern to the northern hemisphere. China alone imports around one billion tonnes of iron ore annually. Three quarters of a million tonnes is exported from Australia each year and the total world trade is around 1.5 million tonnes. When you add coal and oil the movement of mass from place to place on the earth’s surface is enormous.

It might be considered that, “Compared to the mass of the earth it is minuscule!” Is it? In a purely unqualified sense that may well be true. But when you consider the speed in an absolute sense and the effect of Coriolis acceleration as those ships, weighing up to a quarter of a millions tonnes, move across the surface of the earth at the varying radius as they cross the lines of latitude and off load their cargo then one might come to a different conclusion.

The absolute speed on the surface of the earth at the equator is some 1.67 thousand kilometres per hour. The effect of not only the movement but the redistribution of mass on the surface of the earth has a significant effect on the dynamic balance of spinning globe.

The net effect of this change in mass distribution has the effect of inducing an oscillation of the earth’s axis in a two dimensional sense. This manifests itself as a gyration.

The next key consideration is the frequency of oscillation or gyration and the effect on the movement of the atmosphere, the vortices forming our weather patterns and the net balance of radiant heat on the earth’s surface.

The combined effect of all this, other than on the weather patterns, is to slow the earth’s rotation and as a consequence the amount of gyration increases. The research suggests that if there is no corrective action the gyration will increase to the extent that not only weather patterns and temperatures are affected but people will be able to feel the effect physically. As weight changes proportional to the gyratory impact on gravity. A person with a mass of 70 kg may one day find the scales show 80 kg and a few days later 60 kg due to the effect of this phenomenon. Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis first explained this in 1835 while researching at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. Coriolis discussed the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference.

The diagram to the left clearly shows how movement of mass from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere will cause a force that will induce gyration.

In conclusion the professor leading this research, Professor Ivor Konyoulotov, has said that unless approximately half of the population of the northern hemisphere is prepared to migrate to the proposed artificial island, Couldyathinkit, to be built in the Great Sothern Ocean in order to progressively correct the imbalance then we are all doomed to ever increasing vertigo and eventually people will be forced to walk on all fours.

Lindsay Threadgate August 2016