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I’m not sure this title is completely correct “The researchers identified the type of water loss on land, and for the first time, found that 68% came from groundwater alone — contributing more to sea level rise than glaciers and ice caps on land.” They are saying the leading loss of water loss is from ground water. The largest contributor to sea level rise I would guess is still thermosteric sea level rise due to the…
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I think the distinction is between rainwater runoff vs aquifer depletion. They are related, and if we were collectively smarter we would do a better job of managing the runoff to help restore the aquifers.
in some parts of the country (US), interstate water agreements promise a certain volume of water to be delivered from one state to another, in which cases, runoff is sometimes required. Legal agreements.
The recent tragedy in Texas is a key example -- way more water than could be "handled", and if there were mitigations in place it could have been win/win (temper flooding and replenish aquifers.
I follow a youtuber who's trying to rehabilitate desert land by slowing the water down to let some percolate in -- it's a wonderful dream: https://www.youtube.com/@dustupstexas
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thats what revolutionary movements are for: to organize "everyone else" and physically purge the elites that dont care about the crisis affecting regular people
Nowadays the revolutionary movements listen to Twitter and go hunting immigrants instead, the elite has never been safer?
I’m not sure this title is completely correct “The researchers identified the type of water loss on land, and for the first time, found that 68% came from groundwater alone — contributing more to sea level rise than glaciers and ice caps on land.” They are saying the leading loss of water loss is from ground water. The largest contributor to sea level rise I would guess is still thermosteric sea level rise due to the…
Ok, I've put the second suggestion up there. Thanks! (Submitted title was "Freshwater loss from land is the lead driver of sea-level rise")
Does anybody have any data about the accelerating sea-level rising? As a Dutch person I'm of course very interested in this, but I can't find any data that supports this.
> “Continents are drying, freshwater availability is shrinking, and sea-level rise is accelerating. Does anybody have any data about the accelerating sea-level rising? As a Dutch person I'm of course very interested in this, but I can't find any data that supports this.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sea-level
I don't see much of an acceleration...
So go long on desalination tech?