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In the next couple of years, everyone on Earth will lose a second of time but when exactly this happens is now being influenced by human-driven climate change. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second – called a “negative leap second” – around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday. Without global warming, however, this time change would likely have happened three years earlier in 2026. “This is an unprecedent…

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