Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shifted Earth’s axis

https://archive.is/Dnadp

Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to make Earth's poles drift by 80 centimetres

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majorgator13@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Thats kinda wild. Really shows how everything we do has unintended consequences.

KnittingTrekker@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

Exactly my thoughts!

geoffervescent@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

This feels relatively pop sciencey and I have a strong intuition that the actual research paper won't be quite as conclusive as the article makes it out to be.

MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Doesn't the Earth wobble naturally though? I'm pretty skeptical that this article is true.

SacredTreeJack@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This is a short article. It talks about that.

MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

I'll give it a read, I suppose.

Darzzake@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

To thoses how want to know more, here's the paper cited by the article:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103509