Australian cities bake in heatwave

When I read these stories, of which there are many regarding extreme weather changes, I begin to wonder. Climate change is the most discussed, but what !!! if the world had change its rotation by such a slight degree. Could this also bring a change in the weather patterns. If that was the case I doubt if scientist would be able to disclose the information, governments would make sure of that. Because they realise what could possible happen. So blaming the industrial revolution for the start of climate change, is this a correct assumption??? Just a thought.

If the world changed its axis by a 'degree', we wouldn't need a scientist to notice -most amateur astronomers would pick it up immediately (it would be hard to hide). What force would act upon the earth to shift its axis? An impact with another (massive) object would also be fairly hard to cover up. On the other hand: We can readily demonstrate that a balloon filled with CO2 heats more under an infrared source (e.g. sun) than one filled with air. We can readily calculate the mass of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by burning a fossil fuel (sourced from under the ground, and not recently in the atmosphere) because we know the mass of carbon and oxygen, and we know the chemical formulas for gas/petroleum products. 1 Litre of gas/petrol burnt will create a bit over 2kg of atmospheric CO2. We know how much oil and coal we're burning (and how much CO2 we're releasing) and can model thermal changes mathematical. It may well be that there are other unknown factors at work (none that can be reasonably theorised yet), but it should be evident to most high school and university science graduates that more CO2 will create a warmer atmosphere. Compounded with melting polar ice-caps, and reduced albedo, I don't find it too big a stretch of the imagination to think that humans are changing the atmosphere/climate for the worse. There are a lot of humans, and the atmosphere isn't really very big - less than 10km from where you are now (straight up) there isn't enough of it to support human life. Also just a thought... Rant over