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Posted on 11/15/2025 1:18:32 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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.”
With the Earth moving on a rotational pole, the distribution of water on the planet impacts distribution of mass. “Like adding a tiny bit of weight to a spinning top,” authors say, “the Earth spins a little differently as water is moved around.”
NASA research published in 2016 alerted us to the fact that the distribution of water can change the Earth’s rotation. This study in Geophysical Research Letters attempts to add some hard figures to that realization. “I’m very glad to find the unexplained cause of the rotation pole drift,” Seo says. “On the other hand, as a resident of Earth and a father, I’m concerned and surprised to see that pumping groundwater is another source of sea-level rise.”
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.
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.
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Because all the fatties got their EBT back.
Is it tilting left or tilting right?
We need to know this before we can decide whether to be alarmed.
“Earth shoes”! lol! I haven’t heard of those in 40 years!
My bride, more well read than am I, has a favorite book to which she refers often. "The Dumbing Down of America." There are several on the theme, but the sense is obvious. A dumbed-down "electorate" is sought by those who would bamboozle, corral or stampede a people.
This is a reason I try to post links for others. I should have done that this time. Mea culpa.
So, the pumped ground water just floats on top of everything for all time thereafter?
I notice that rain sorta seeps into the ground.
Wouldn’t water pumped up work the same, even if pumped from deep wells?
Yes, I believe it would.
Maybe these guys should look into continental uplift and tectonics.
I’s habbening!!!! Anthropogenic Migratorial Global Tilt
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2407894/posts?page=32#32
The wetter climate in the Sahara was not a result of change of earth’s axial tilt, it was caused by the Ice Age climate and its resulting equatorward shift of the jet streams, reducing the scope of subtropical highs and allowing occasional moist weather systems to occur in the Sahara. When the earth warmed after the last of the post-glacial oscillations, these moist systems became less and less frequent and the region turned from semi-arid to full desert like it is nowadays. There are always small shifts from century to century in the margins of the Sahara; a region known as the Sahel is nowadays the equivalent of that occasionally moist climate, and it abuts the Sahara on its southern margins. Lake Chad was once a lot larger than it is nowadays in part because the Sahel was moist and extended to its latitude (as an inland salt lake, Lake Chad receives most of its water from the southeast). Roughly the same process was occurring in the desert southwest region of the U.S. which was considerably moister in the glacial era. But the earth’s axial tilt undergoes some variation over time, it is not always 23.6 degrees as it is now, it varies from about 23.0 to 24.2 degrees over irregular cycles. A larger range is one of three orbital factors which can favor glacial expansion. This is because winters become more severe with even less solar heat reaching the higher latitudes. The other factors are timing of perihelion and orbital eccentricity. Larger eccentricity also favors glacial expansion. Our current perihelion date does not favor glacial expansion. Basically we hit least favorable peaks on all three cycles around 3000 BC and things have not moved much since then.
somehow 31 inches out of 1,577,756,569 inches around...
(Plus or minus since earth is not quite a perfect sphere)
somehow 31 inches wouldn’t alarm me (except perhaps in a sex ed class if he were seated to my rear)
just saying
***the Earth’s tilt of roughly 31.5 inches***
Measure from where? The center of the earth? The poles? some place in space?
Ice caps getting heavier
I’m old.enough to remember when Popular Mechanics was about how shit worked, not Communist propaganda.
Oh shit!
I had a feeling something wasn’t right.
Sure. Did the guys ever hear of the saying “Correlation does not imply causation”
We have nothing that can measure a 1/2” tilt.
“The Earth’s polar circumference (the distance around the planet passing through the North and South Poles, also known as a meridional circumference) is approximately 40,008 kilometers (or about 24,860 miles).” - Grok
I think the Earth can do whatever it wants. I also think 31-1/2” ain’t much compared to 12,430 miles.
But I’m no scientist. (Or mathematician.)
i would be astomished if painting your car improved its gas mileage
the added weight of the paint should require MORE gas to move you about, not less
but then again, its been awhile since I learned (?) my ‘rithmetic
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Al's view of the big screen TV was blocked by trying to look past his huge belly as he lay in bed. He missed it.
Yawn… if the “climate change ™️” gets me, then it does.
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