Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches/80cm. And That Shouldn't Happen

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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 publishedin 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.

This data may also help conservationists understand how to work toward staving off continued sea level rise and other climate issues. Hopefully, changes can be properly implemented over time.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a65515974/why-earth-has-tilted-science/

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-weve-groundwater-nudged-earth.html

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someone needs to go into space and just push it back a bit

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Here’s a picture for reference:

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updated first look at the tilted earth 
 

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Tilt it more so that it can finally end for us all 

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10 hours ago, bionic said:

someone needs to go into space and just push it back a bit

Legit Sounds like something Trump would say lol

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1 hour ago, bionic said:

someone needs to go into space and just push it back a bit

 

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In all seriousness, climate change denial needs to eventually be punished legally. Climate change denial has continually proven (especially with the recent issues in Texas) to cause deaths. Let's not sugar coat it, climate change deniers k!ll people. Hopefully one day these lies become punishable by law.

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