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We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth's spin (news.agu.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't actually read it, but it's AGU which is kind of a big deal. If Earth science academics got this Earth science wrong that is itself extraordinary.

I'm reading it now. Do you understand it all? It looks like they're using spherical harmonics to approximate the contributions of each water shift to the drift of the rotational pole, which I sort of get but don't really.