Comment by rrobukef

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.