Is Global Warming Slowing Down 2024. Global warming is slowing earth's spin and may affect how we keep time, study suggests. Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees celsius over the past 12 months for the first time on record, new data shows, breaching a critical threshold that, if it.

One key factor is the unusually rapid onset of a natural weather system known as el niño. Global warming is slowing the earth’s rotation.