Posted on 02/12/2016 4:43:07 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Miami (AFP) - As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday.
Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth's continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science.
This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent, it said.
"We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean," said lead author J.T. Reager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge -- at least temporarily."
The global water cycle involves the flow of moisture, from the evaporation over the oceans to the fall of precipitation, to runoff and rivers that lead back into the ocean..........
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
"I have no clue how many climate science denial myths a Republican presidential candidate can fit onto the head of a pin, but given these zingers are generally huge it's probably not that many. But we do now have some clue how many myths one of those candidates, Senator Ted Cruz, can fit into an eight-minute diatribe. At least six. When asked about climate change at recent hustings, Cruz has been delivering a stock set of answers from the Little Book of Climate Change Denial (not a real book)."...............
Climate Change is the dying gasp of tyrants, ideologues and self-interested people who are looking for another (in a long line of failed concepts like socialism, communism, liberalism ad nauseam)reason to control other peoples’ minds, money and future for their own selfish goals.
Well said.
Of course, these same bio chem folks know that these bugs have been used for ages to clean up other contaminated sites.
So what is so brilliant about this water sopping claim?
True, but perhaps not really ‘failed’ at all. Look at all the people who cannot wait to vote for socialists, would-be tyrants, and communists in the upcoming General.
A strong belief in Climate Change is the stock and trade of these would-be leaders, reinforced by the myriad of Millennials who were taught that Climate Change is real, any measure is justified to fix it (the ends justifies the means), and are marching to vote one of them into the WH.
So it may not be actually dying, but morphing into codified law and regulation supported by the marching minions of low educational level voters or the American creations of Marx, Hegel, Alinsky, etc.
Dreams, wishes and hopes are not actual executed fact. They are exactly that - promises. Empty promises at that.
History tells us that in every case where socialism, communism and ideologies that don’t involve freedom of choice, liberty and defense from government has been tried, it eventually fails. It is exactly THAT reason why the goals of each are continually tried out under other trendier brands (like Global Cooling - remember ozone?, AGW, and now Climate Change). The actual function and effect of ALL of these dogmas still ends up in power and control over the lives and thoughts of others.
Sanders and Trump: Magic Sells
......"In truth, Trump and Sanders are soaring not just by defying the establishment, but by defying logic and history. Sanders's magic potion is socialism; Trump's is Trump.
The young Democrats swooning for Sanders appear unfamiliar with socialism's century-long career, a dismal tale of ruination from Russia to Cuba to Venezuela. Indeed, are they even aware that China's greatest reduction in poverty in human history correlates precisely with the degree to which it has given up socialism?
Trump's magic is toughness - toughness in a world of losers. The power and will of the caudillo will make everything right.
Apart from the fact that strongman rule contradicts the American constitutional tradition of limited and constrained government, caudillo populism simply doesn't work. It accounts in a large part for the relative backwardness of Africa and Latin America. In 1900, Argentina had a per capita income fully 70 percent of ours. After a 20th century wallowing in Peronism and its imitators, Argentina is a basket case, its per capita income now 23 percent of ours.
There certainly is a crisis of confidence in the country's institutions. But that's hardly new. The current run of endemic distrust began with Vietnam and Watergate. Yet not in our lifetimes have the left and right populism of the Sanders and Trump variety enjoyed such massive support.
The added factor is the Obama effect, the depressed and anxious mood of a nation experiencing its worst economic recovery since World War II and watching its power and influence abroad decline amid a willed global retreat.
The result is a politics of high fantasy. Things can't get any worse, we hear, so why not shake things up to their foundation? Anyone who thinks things can't get any worse knows nothing. And risks everything."
Dittos Gaffer
Also well said
As the jungles of Saharan Africa dried up, the moisture from the drying formed the equatorial moisture blanket that slid by gravity to the south where as the temperatures receded it fell as snow on the Antarctic land mass
Now apparently that frozen sahara moisture is being released and soaked up in the desiccated land masses to the north
or at least that is the conclusion that can be drawn
They create one bugaboo after another to try and keep us thrown off balance, terrified and divided. It’s just how the lying, thieving whores do it up on THE HILL.
What is wrong with you people! Can’t you see that the water cycle is continuing apace? Apace, I tell you!
NASA employees are liars.
They just make it up as they go.
Yes. Apace. I read recently that despite the severe draught in California, growers of produce are poised to reap record sales, in spite of the government stopping their water because of some snail/frog/titmouse scat eater denizen of the wild endangered by all that gluttonous water-taking to feed us.
:: As glaciers melt due to climate change ::
Oooooops. Had to stop right there.
Glaciers “melt” regardless. If we want to stop them from melting, the overall climate must be maintained around, oh....32F/0C.
That link is malformed. there’s a “www.freerepublic.com/perl/- “ before the link by CK you wanted to reference at national review.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431183/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-populism-high-fantasy
Apparently the global warming scammers have been a bit embarrassed that all their claims of impending inundation of lowlands have not happened. They need an excuse. They have made wild claims about the polar ice caps melting, that if they were actually correct, well, all that water has to go somewhere. So they come up with this "theory."
I guess the thinking is something like: never mind all those claims of global warming causing drought and falling water tables, we'll claim the water is very selectively going through the water cycle only to certain areas, not to others.
Let me offer an alternative explanation. One, there is no real global warming in the sense these scammers are claiming. Sure, the climate might be shaking and baking and shifting around some. That's actually a good thing as stagnation in nature tends to be bad. Two, while the ice cap at the north pole has experienced some significant fluctuations over the past several decades, at the south pole the ice cap has been steadily *gaining* ice. Consider, the north pole cap is floating on the sea. A little property of physics/nature called "displacement" means we could literally melt the entire north pole cap and see virtually no change in sea level - it has already displaced all the water equivalent to its weight. There might be some minor changes due to salinity and density changes as the fresh water melts.
Ice build up over the land parts of Antarctica should remove water from the global cycle and reduce sea levels, while ice buildup over water near the south pole should have no effect.
Oh NASA, how the mighty have fallen. Sad to say, but you've become the but of a scientific joke. With your loss of focus, loss of vision of the mission... I mean, "Muslim outreach" etc.? {snort}
NASA, how could you let one of your "leading" scientists say something like:
"We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean," said lead author J.T. Reager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Your "leaders" are admitting to making assumptions and running with it - for years. Until just now they get around to checking those assumptions? SMDH...
"What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge -- at least temporarily."
Really? Still trying to tote the party line that: hey, while our disaster predictions have never been right before, trust me, this respite is only temporary, the sky is falling...
NASA NASA NASA... It is stunning to see any organization that was formerly scientific and truthful in its focus be so utterly co-opted by politics. That, and maybe we're seeing the first real infiltration of scientists from the "everyone's a winner" generation into leadership positions within NASA. You know, the kids that have been brought up thinking their best efforts are good enough and they should just go with it. No, kids, your best efforts are often not enough. Science, physics, math, nature - the real world does not give a damn about your best efforts. Your theory is either right or not. "Best effort" does not matter. You can't just make assumptions and go with them and then come back later and try to clean things up. Hard physical sciences don't work like that. You don't get a participation trophy because your theorem was almost right.
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