i dunno Stan,
i come a hell of a lot closer to believing that the can measure the length of a day down to microseconds, and tilt
to a few inches, than the algore crew and AGW
if you cannot measure the length of a day to a microsecond, then there is no way you can predict AGW with any degree of certainty.
What the heck does the ability to measure the speed of the earth's rotation down to microseconds, have to do with keeping records of temperature to the degree C over many decades?
Stan
Edit...I dont' know anything about measuring the speed of the earth's rotation, (and don't really care) but here's a guy who apparantly does. Taken from the Kansas City Star newspaper so take with a grain of salt.
"Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one rotation - 86,400 seconds or 24 hours.
An earthquake can make Earth rotate faster by nudging some of its mass closer to the planet's axis, just as ice skaters can speed up their spins by pulling in their arms. Conversely, a quake can slow the rotation and lengthen the day if it redistributes mass away from that axis, Gross said Tuesday.
Gross said the calculated changes in length of the day are permanent. So a bunch of big quakes could add up to make the day shorter, "but these changes are very, very small."
So small, in fact, that scientists can't record them directly. Gross said actual observations of the length of the day are accurate to five-millionths of a second. His estimate of the effect of the Chile quake is only a quarter of that span."