[Skwor]

Utter Junk Science. From the plain language summary, tell me if you see the problem:

Melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers has been understood as a main cause of sea level rise associated with contemporary climate warming. It has been proposed that an important anthropogenic contribution is sea level rise due to groundwater depletion resulting from irrigation. A climate model estimate for the period 1993–2010 gives total groundwater depletion of 2,150 GTon, equivalent to global sea level rise of 6.24 mm. However, direct observational evidence supporting this estimate has been lacking. In this study, we show that the model estimate of water redistribution from aquifers to the oceans would result in a drift of Earth's rotational pole, about 78.48 cm toward 64.16°E.

IOW, they are making it all up from models, no actual empirical data supports any of this.

[Dahoser]

IOW, they are making it all up from models, no actual empirical data supports any of this.

So they admit that the model did not accurately forecast what actually happened, but then did a "study" to show what would have happened had the model been accurate? Basically they're acting like a sports show host who predicts a team will win the Super Bowl and then goes on the air after the team loses and explains how if they had won, this would have been the score and who would have gotten the touchdowns. Wait, almost forgot: the media would do a story saying how the team won and who got the touchdowns. I think I got it now.