Global Warming Causing Earth to Rise
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Did you know if you’re in the western US, the ground you’re standing on may be a little higher than it was a few years ago? The drought that’s been plaguing the West, a result of global warming, has resulted in an “uplift effect,” scientists find. The “growing, broad-scale loss of water” has caused “the entire western US to rise up like an uncoiled spring,” according to a new study.
The City of Albuquerque in New Mexico is 0.15 inches higher than a decade earlier, while California’s mountains have climbed more than half an inch, the Albuquerque Journal reports. “It probably doesn’t change life for people in Albuquerque or the Southwest, but it’s significant that so much water is being moved around that it can cause the land to move up or down,” says a University of New Mexico geophysicist.
The median uplift is 4 millimeters, note researchers in Science. The rising effect is the result of some 63 trillion gallons of water lost during the course of the drought. That’s enough that it could cover the entire western US at a four-inch depth, experts say, via the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Its loss means the disappearance of “a lot of weight, a lot of mass,” says an outside scientist. The tectonic plate that holds the West has ascended quickly, a researcher explains. His team reached its conclusions by studying GPS data from hundreds of sites.
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Aha, my plan for growing taller is working. This is my fault because I prayed for height. I’ve been seeing pics of Lake Shasta, Folsom lake and Lake Oroville all over the place and it is frightening the loss of water here in CA. I’ve been letting my garden and lawn out front die and I will replace with drought tolerant things that fit a new design done for me, so I don’t use as much water as I have been using. We collect the before water gets hot in shower water, to use on plants and veggie cooking water same way for the indoor plants. doing my part. If I could find a way to not stink, I would take showers every two or three days. Since I run and workout, it would be too much for me to bear the stanky smell of myself.
Jess at least you’re doing your part. The long range predictions for California, are, unfortunately, quite grim.