Human society is shifting the tilt of the Earth

The Hill ^ | 6/30/2023 | By Saul Elbein

[NohSpinZone]

Humans pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that the planet has begun to wobble detectably on its axis, a new study has found.

On its own terms, the magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed category as Earth’s slowly drifting continents.

But the findings published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters show the extent to which human action — in the form of dam construction, groundwater drilling and the burning of fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth.

They also provide powerful corroboration for something scientists had long suspected but had remained unproven: the staggering depletion of the world’s groundwater reserves over the past several decades.

The scope of the findings released this month were startling. Between 1993 and 2010, the scientists found, human society — and mostly human agriculture — had depleted 2,510 gigatons of water.

That’s the equivalent of 600 cubic miles of lost freshwater, more than five times the volume of Lake Erie or half the volume of Lake Huron.

At that rate, we would run through the equivalent of the 2,900 cubic miles of water that fill Lake Superior by the end of the century.

[Lean-Right]

So, sir, pray tell.
What caused an ice sheet over a mile
thick, that was powerful enough to form
some of the largest fresh water lakes
in the world, to recede? The laurentide
ice sheet melted 10,000 years ago.
That is what I would consider a major
climate change event.
The earth wobbles. It always has, and
always will.
That (1,000,000 times bigger than earth)
big orange ball in the sky is what
dictates our climate.

[GingisK]

Yeah, the water ceased to exist after that.