...the team estimates the deficit at nearly 240 gigatons, or 63 trillion gallons of water. That much water spread across the entire western United States would run four inches deep.IOW, if these are the real numbers the team is nuts.
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Posted on 08/24/2014 5:02:20 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Just how massive is that water loss? In a paper published this week in Science, the team estimates the deficit at nearly 240 gigatons, or 63 trillion gallons of water. That much water spread across the entire western United States would run four inches deep.
If there's one piece of good news here, it's that the uplift of the tectonic plates in the drought zone shouldn't change the likelihood of earthquakes or other seismic events. "This will change the stress on faults, but by an amount that's really small," Agnew told Popular Science.
That's probably small solace to the people living through the driest year in over a century, though.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
In addition to causing any rise in Ocean levels to cease, the mighty Obama has caused the mountains to rise. Is there no limit to this man’s super capabilities?
Good governance would dictate relieving the EPA restrictions that are (on paper) to protect fish and allowing water for farms. (Really, they’re anti-people and anti-civilization regulations.) Good governance would mean building reservoirs to hold and retain for use the water they do have. Instead, they’re spending 27 times more on high speed rail and other graft schemes than on water retention.
I think I figured out where the water went !
The average person uses 100 gallons of water a day:
source:
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html
There are an estimated 30 MILLION + illegal aliens in the US
so.... 30,000,000 X 100 gallons = 3 billion gallons of fresh water consumed per DAY by illegal aliens.
365 days in a year X 3 billion = 1.095 TRILLION gallons of water a year.
so... if illegals are consuming 1 trillion gallons of water a year, I just found 30 trillion gallons of the missing water! which is how much of OUR water they used up over the last 30 years!
YIKES
Yay Obama! Not only did the oceans stop rising, the water table fell so much that the mountains started to rise! /S
I am not an expert in this area by any means but my common sense tells me that this story is false. Water added to soil causes the soil to expand not contract. When earth dries out it contracts. Witness a dry lake or stream bed. Cracks in basement walls can suddenly appear in a drought. My sense is they ought to be looking at the building up of pressures deep in the earths crust that may be signaling coming earth quakes or eruptions.
...the team estimates the deficit at nearly 240 gigatons, or 63 trillion gallons of water. That much water spread across the entire western United States would run four inches deep.IOW, if these are the real numbers the team is nuts.
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PopSci went full nuttery on behalf of the global warming agitprop a few editors back.
Extreme Drought Is Causing Land In The Western U.S. To Rise Upward No, you’re not getting taller. By Loren Grush
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/extreme-drought-causing-land-western-us-rise-upward
Water has mass which presses down on the Earth’s surface. When that mass is removed it allows the land to rebound. This phenomenon is seen in reverse when new dams are built.
Californica was just hit with 6 earthquake around Napa.
There is certainly an impact to running a lot of melt water to the ocean for the sake of the smelt instead of letting it be absorbed into the water table after/during use by humans.
I agree. This is BS.
Mountain rose 1/2". Big whoop. You need a an average over a long period of time to even come up with a theory.
LOL, tell that to the people in Napa. You know, land of the hot springs and geysers? And now, earthquakes from million-year-old dormant faults which mysteriously wake up. Yeah, what a mystery.
Beautiful state- but drought? Floods? Earthquakes? Mudslides? Forrest fires? I’ll stick with where I am. :)
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