Comment by thsksbd
2 years ago
Yesterday I had water in DC. A five hour drive with no stops later, I relieved my self.
I changed the tilt of the Earth.
Are our instruments sensitive to measure this? No.
Are our insanely accurate instruments able to measure other human activity? Yes.
Is the tilt change significant? Not at all.
Is ground water exploitation a problem? It is a massive problem, and one that doesn't need FUD distractions.
The article reads like the opposite to FUD because it's dry. Instead it's more like 'People previously estimated how much groundwater was pumped to the sea. If it is that much earth's axis should tilt like this. We checked, it does. It is actually the second biggest variable to explain permanent axis drift.'
It's not a distraction, it is confirmation. In the future we can confirm groundwater pumping estimations by looking at axis tilt and it becomes harder to deny it happening.
EDIT: Reread the abstract. The previous estimations did not have direct evidence, this is such evidence.