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Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen.
Water has power. So much power, in fact, that pumping Earth’s groundwater can change the planet’s tilt and rotation. It can also impact sea-level rise and other consequences of climate change.
Pumping groundwater appears to have a greater consequence than ever previously thought. But now—thanks to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to.24 inches of sea level rise.
“Earth’s rotational pole actually changes a lot,” Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University and study lead, says in a statement. “Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole.”
Why did they have to drag the climate scam into this?
The study included data from 1993 through 2010, and showed that the pumping of as much as 2,150 gigatons of groundwater has caused a change in the Earth’s tilt of roughly 31.5 inches. The pumping is largely for irrigation and human use, with the groundwater eventually relocating to the oceans.
So, for irrigation, food production, and more. But, no, they had to jump in with the scam.
In the study, researchers modeled observed changes in the drift of Earth’s rotational pole and the movement of water. Across varying scenarios, the only model that matched the drift was one that included 2,150 gigatons of groundwater distribution.
That would be about 1/50 millionth of the globes circumference. That’s a lot smaller than a rounding error. Do we really have instrumentation that precise? But, wait, what was that about modeled? From the study
Climate model estimates show significant groundwater depletion during the 20th century, consistent with global mean sea level (GMSL) budget analysis. However, prior to the Argo float era, in the early 2000’s, there is little information about steric sea level contributions to GMSL, making the role of groundwater depletion in this period less certain. We show that a useful constraint is found in observed polar motion (PM). In the period 1993–2010, we find that predicted PM excitation trends estimated from various sources of surface mass loads and the estimated glacial isostatic adjustment agree very well with the observed. Among many contributors to the PM excitation trend, groundwater storage changes are estimated to be the second largest (4.36 cm/yr) toward 64.16°E. Neglecting groundwater effects, the predicted trend differs significantly from the observed. PM observations may also provide a tool for studying historical continental scale water storage variations.
So, not really data, just “we think”. This might have had more impact if they just stayed with environmental component, but, not, the media seems to be required to include the cult in everything.
Oops! Better fix that article subheading: 31.5 inches, not 31.5 degrees!
The dates inclusive for the study are 1993 through 2010, so we can’t really blame Donald Trump, so I guess that it’s all George Bush’s fault. Doesn’t matter which one: the elder President Bush can be blamed for siring the younger President Bush!
The data is the 31.5 inches.The “theory” is that the best possible explanation for the observed phenomenon is that it was caused by pumping groundwater.
Scientists also have a “theory” that the moon is a solid sphere.a previous “theory” that it was made of cheese was disproved by “data”
Teach has never seemed to grasu scientific nomenclature.
A scientific theory is not dogma and is always subject to being refuted or rejected. The “theory” of global warming has been attacked for decades. It is still our best explanation of the data we observe.
Nice copy and paste, Johnny. The theory of gw has been attacked for decades simply because heat hasn’t always followed CO2 in earth’s history and there are other theories that haven’t been falsified. “A scientific theory is not dogma and is always subject to being refuted or rejected”. Then why has your cult consistently claimed “the science is settled”?
Jill,
Science is never settled, but reasonable people can conclude enough evidence is available to suggest action. The beauty of science is that it is provisional!!
Smoking was never “proven” to cause cancer, but yet most reasonable people agree that is contributory. We “violate” Americans’ rights by limiting where people smoke and who can purchase tobacco!
Air pollution was never “proven” to cause asthma, but yet most reasonable people agree that limiting air pollution is justified, even if it violates your or a company’s freedom to pollute.
The Earth appears to be about 4.5 Billion years old; the universe about 14.5 Billion. Most Evangelical christians do not believe this. And science is still unsure what the heck is the mechanism of gravity – yet we avoid jumping off building.
The scientific evidence that the recent (150 yrs) increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing warming is overwhelming to all but the WDs.
You should admit that the concern of WDs is not about the science of GW but is about the suggested actions.
Teaches beloved Saudis have bought up huge areas of AZ frilled very deep wells and have pumped out so much water to grow dairy cow feed crops to be sent back home that Manny AZ families can not afford to drill deep enough to get water from their own wells.