[Rockhounds] We’ve Pumped So Much Groundwater That We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin

Paul etchplain at att.net
Fri Oct 6 07:57:24 PDT 2023


We’ve Pumped So Much Groundwater That We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin

Sea level rise due to groundwater withdrawal has caused the Earth’s 
rotational

pole to wander nearly a meter, Rebecca Dzombak, American geophysical Union

https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin/

Seo, K.W., Ryu, D., Eom, J., Jeon, T., Kim, J.S., Youm, K., Chen, J. and

Wilson, C.R., 2023. Drift of Earth's pole confirms groundwater depletion

as a significant contributor to global sea level rise 
1993–2010./Geophysical/

/Research Letters/,/50/(12), p.e2023GL103509. open access

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103509

Yours,

Paul H.


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