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I’m really curious how much all our aquifer draining has added to sea level. I have no idea what the scale is. But I suspect it is enough to show up in measurem

by timmg 3y ago

I’m really curious how much all our aquifer draining has added to sea level. I have no idea what the scale is. But I suspect it is enough to show up in measurements.

dreamcompiler 3y ago
TFA says it's a quarter of an inch.
- timmg 3y ago
  Thanks! That’s around 4% of the sea level rise since 1950. Crazy!
  - rrobukef 3y ago
    Note this is for the years 1993-2010 only. But don't extrapolate 25% of the time to 16% of the sea level rise since the 1950's is caused by pumping unless you write a sourced paper.