Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/climate-crisis-has-shifted-the-earths-axis-study-shows
> The research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, showed > glacial losses accounted for most of the shift, but it is likely that the > pumping up of groundwater also contributed to the movements. > > Groundwater is stored under land but, once pumped up for drinking or > agriculture, most eventually flows to sea, redistributing its weight around > the world. In the past 50 years, humanity has removed 18tn tonnes of water > from deep underground reservoirs without it being replaced. > > Vincent Humphrey, at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and not involved > in the new research said it showed how human activities have redistributed > huge amounts of water around the planet: “It tells you how strong this mass > change is – it’s so big that it can change the axis of the Earth.” However, > the movement of the Earth’s axis is not large enough to affect daily life, he > said: it could change the length of a day, but only by milliseconds. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
