[Bulwinkle]

Dems are trying to use climate change as an election issue.... Since ground water extrusion add to sea level rise just as much as melting glaciers and ice caps, then Dems should be demanding California immediately cut ground pumping by 50%.

Shove it back in their face: IF you are truly concerned about sea levels rising, must be for massive cuts is ground water pumping.

[molson209]

D’oh

[thackney]

So replacing groundwater use with desalinization plants will save the world?

All we have to due is greatly increase the cost of our water to make it work!

[GladesGuru]

Water or sea level rising or falling based upon what fixed point?

Specific location, please.

[NormsRevenge]

The Earth is inking The Earth is sinking .. WE need more gubamint relief!!

[CPOSharky]

Why don’t they just use micrometers or nanometers for measurements so they will sound like huge amounts. (S)

[GraceG]

We should be buildling massive Thorium Salt Reactors to power giant desalinization plants that can take water from the ocean and use it for drinking water and take the excfess water and pipe it BACK into Aquafers.

Also these reactors can use excess power to break apart water for hydrogen gas that can be used for peak demand electricity and also to make synthetic gasoline during the night time when power demand is least.

Also if we developed enough safe Thorium Reactors we could use excess power to power giant greenhouses to grow vegetables in northern climates using the excess heat.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Dems are trying to use climate change as an election issue.... Since ground water extrusion add to sea level rise just as much as melting glaciers and ice caps, then Dems should be demanding California immediately cut ground pumping by 50%.
Shove it back in their face: IF you are truly concerned about sea levels rising, must be for massive cuts is ground water pumping.”

You are absolutely correct. When the hypocrisy of the left is blatant, it needs to be pointed out as publicly as possible.

[Wuli]

Outside of any global warming scare tactics, ground water depletion IS a local problem in some areas.

The image in the immediate left in the link below shows a man next to a pole that marks what “ground level” was in that area of the central valley of California in 1925 (a good 60+ feet higher), 1955 and 1977. Clearly this is not a new phenomena and clearly it has more to do with how water is being used than “global warming”.

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/land-subsidence-monitoring-network.html