Because of climate change, by the end of the century The North Pole and the South Pole of the earth could move up to 27 meters to the west compared to where they were in 1900: the rapid dissolution of glacial caps and the consequent redistribution of oceanic masses On the planet they can in fact change the terrestrial rotation axis more than the End of the last glacial erawith potential effect on the satellite navigation and on space probes. This is indicated by the study of the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The researchers have rebuilt the movement of the Terrestrial geographical poles from 1900 to 2018 and they combined the data with the projections relating to dissolution of glacial capsin order to estimate how much the poles could move in different scenarios of climate change caused by man.
From the results it emerged that, in the worst climatic scenarioThe North Pole it could move west of over 27 meters compared to its position in 1900. In the better scenariowith lower greenhouse gas emissions, you could have a movement of about 12 meters. In simulations the role played by the dissolution of the glacial caps of the Greenland and of theAntarctica compared to that of the dissolution of the glaciers.
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