The Time Of Our Lives

There is a great story about Joey Ramone who suffered from a Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that whenever he walked down some stairs he had to step onto the ground off the last step onto his left foot and if he never, he would return to the top of the stairs and start again and as he lived in a 5th floor apartment, the band were always late for their appearances which must have been a nightmare for the rest of them but it could be that soon we all have the perfect excuse for turning up late somewhere because the Earths rotation is slowing and it is all thanks to Global Warming.
The accelerating melt from Greenland and Antarctica is adding extra water to the World's seas, redistributing mass and causing the Earth to not spin quite as fast as it would otherwise which is actually gloomily impressive that we ruined our Planet so much that we have actually changed how fast the Earth rotates.
To compensate the bods in charge of these things will be subtracting seconds from our clocks to keep everything in line, the first time they have ever had to do such a thing because they usually have to add seconds to compensate for our trip around the Sun not being an exactly timed journey.  
The problem with the negative second is that all the computer systems we use are only programmed for positive seconds and will have to be rewritten to ensure they all keep with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which the standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.
Those of us old enough to remember the Y2K bug and the rewriting of computers programs to compensate for the calendar ticking over to 2000 should be prepared for the dusting off of the prophets of doom predicting planes falling out of the sky and banks resetting all our savings accounts to nil so if us affecting the Earths spin doesn't focus your mind on what we are doing to our planet, maybe a Boeing 747 landing in your kitchen or your Halifax account being wiped clean will.