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Comment by timmg

2 years 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.

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dreamcompiler  2 years ago

TFA says it's a quarter of an inch.

  • timmg  2 years ago

    Thanks! That’s around 4% of the sea level rise since 1950. Crazy!

    • rrobukef  2 years 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.