Climate change could cause clocks to lose a second: Study

Climate change could cause clocks to lose a second: Study Accelerating melt adding extra water to seas and redistributing mass, slowing Earth’s rotation, which may affect time standards around 2029 ISTANBUL A recent study suggests that clocks may skip a second in the near future because the Earth is undergoing changes in its rotation due to factors such as climate change and geological shifts. According to the study published in the Nature journal, there might be a necessity for clocks …