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Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA |
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United States 02/12/2016 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA Oh, those wacky climate change scientists!
---------- Miami (AFP) - As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday. Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth's continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science. This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent, it said. " We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean," said lead author J.T. Reager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. " What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge -- at least temporarily." The global water cycle involves the flow of moisture, from the evaporation over the oceans to the fall of precipitation, to runoff and rivers that lead back into the ocean. Just how much effect on sea level rise this kind of land storage would have has remained unknown until now because there are no land-based instruments that can measure such changes planet-wide. The latest data came from a pair of NASA satellites launched in 2002 -- known as the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)... READ MORE: [ link to news.yahoo.com] . |
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United States 02/12/2016 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA |
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This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent, it said.
Quoting: Fergus Mor Mac Erc I live at the sea. We only ever read about rising sea levels from scientists.  |
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United States 02/12/2016 04:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA It's not good news that the Earth is increasingly hot and parched.
And a sea level rise of 2-1/2 feet rather than 3 feet will still be catastrophic. |
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Germany 02/12/2016 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA It's not good news that the Earth is increasingly hot and parched.
And a sea level rise of 2-1/2 feet rather than 3 feet will still be catastrophic.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65965026 Yeah, Guam will cap size.  |
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United States 02/12/2016 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA
It's not good news that the Earth is increasingly hot and parched.
And a sea level rise of 2-1/2 feet rather than 3 feet will still be catastrophic.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65965026 Sun cycles and earth magnetosphere fluctuations. Nothing worth charging everyone carbon credits over. |
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United States 02/12/2016 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA then how is the water table dropping? |
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United States 02/12/2016 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA It's not good news that the Earth is increasingly hot and parched.
And a sea level rise of 2-1/2 feet rather than 3 feet will still be catastrophic.
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United States 02/13/2016 04:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA then how is the water table dropping?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31569707 Let's hear your explanation. Go ahead. |
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United States 02/13/2016 04:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA |
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United States 02/14/2016 05:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA |
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United States 02/18/2016 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA
then how is the water table dropping?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31569707 Let's hear your explanation. Go ahead. Quoting: Fergus Mor Mac Erc ... |
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Australia 02/18/2016 02:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA The earth is flat.
Its all leaking out the bottom. |
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United States 02/18/2016 02:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA radiation damage to the oceans?
boiling water and such.. |
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United States 02/18/2016 03:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Climate Scientists actually do some science: Study shows parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise! HAHAHA
It's not good news that the Earth is increasingly hot and parched.
And a sea level rise of 2-1/2 feet rather than 3 feet will still be catastrophic.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65965026 The seas have risen 130 meters since the turning of the last Glaciation 20,000 years ago. Of the last two dozen glaciations only two have not had the oceans rise higher than current. With or without man you should expect sea level rise. Its only catastrophic for human cities. If we do dumb things we get punished. |
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