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.
0bama asked NASA to boost the mooselimb self image, world wide.
NASA plan is to reveal themselves as idiots, so everyone looks smart in comparison
Rising sea levels were promised over a decade ago by the Goregon (aka:ManBearPig)... so there has to be a CYA “theory” to explain why they’re not rising. Or maybe we see another example of 1 Corinthians 1:25?
Justawunderin’. (Why is so much “science” these days just speculation?)