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Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change

posted by martyb on Thursday August 27 2020, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the resistant!=impervious dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change:

Fewer of the world's large aquifers are depleting than previously estimated, according to a new study by the University of Sussex and UCL.

[...] Previous global studies of changes in groundwater storage, estimated using data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission and global models, have concluded that intensifying human water withdrawals in the majority of the world's large aquifer systems are causing a sustained reduction in groundwater storage, depleting groundwater resources.

Yet this new study, published in Earth System Dynamics, reveals that depletion is not as widespread as reported, and that replenishment of groundwater storage depends upon extreme rainfall that is increasing under global climate change.

Aquifer depletion is occurring only in 5 localities.

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  • (Score: 1) by MIRV888 on Friday August 28 2020, @06:05PM (2 children)

    by MIRV888 (11376) on Friday August 28 2020, @06:05PM (#1043436)

    'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. '
    Game on people. It's ours to burn.
    Why is god speaking like a schizophrenic?

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:55PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:55PM (#1043827)

    Why is god speaking like a schizophrenic?

    Because He was invented and later translated by a wide variety of people across the centuries. Even the Pope changes his mind, occasionally.

    --
    🌻🌻 [google.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:53AM (#1044075)

    There's too much popular misconception regarding God and the Bible. You missed the part where God told man (Adam) to take care of God's creation- Genesis 2:15 "The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it."

    Dominion, yes, but that was before sin and the fall of man. Ever since, our souls (for those who have one) have been contaminated with sin and evil. Spiritually enlightened people inherently understand the difference.

    https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/care-for-creation [usccb.org]