When I read the paper, I thought: That's not shocking, and yet that is totally shocking.

@coreyspowell @theAGU By about a meter, for those who won’t bother to click.

@coreyspowell @theAGU That’s WILD!!

@coreyspowell @theAGU A meter in the direction of Iceland.

@coreyspowell @theAGU 🤣

@coreyspowell @theAGU That makes absolutely No sense.

@coreyspowell @theAGU But but, the ground water is now stored in additional population.🤔

@coreyspowell @theAGU @al_monteith

@coreyspowell @theAGU *Shrug* It reminds me of when the Fukushima radiation drifted over the U.S. in measurable amounts. It says a great deal about how good we are getting at measuring certain really small things, but by itself says almost nothing about the implied danger of the things being measured.

@coreyspowell @dwallacewells @theAGU Between this and taking out all the Oil from underground- you gotta wonder how that affects things like plate tectonics… fun how we experiment w so many planetary constants completely Willy Nilly.

@coreyspowell @theAGU Now do electrical transmission line return currents and their impact on the planet’s magnetic field!

@coreyspowell @theAGU We are a nightmare ...

@coreyspowell @theAGU OH FUCK YEAH! HUMANITY STRONG!

@coreyspowell @theAGU on the other hand, humans can measure distances with a precision smaller than a proton

@coreyspowell @theAGU What about the redistribution of weight from melting glaciers and ice sheets.

@coreyspowell @theAGU I was wondering about this sort of thing recently. Nice to see there is actual data out there on it. And yes, indeed shocking. What are those laws of physics again?

@coreyspowell @theAGU I. Just. Don't. Believe. This. Conclusion. Is. Worth. The. Paper. It's. Written. On.

@coreyspowell @theAGU Groundwater extraction has lead to earthquakes in the past as evidenced by this article, also happened in the UAE when an aquifer imploded because it was sucked dry

@coreyspowell @theAGU Of course it has nothing to do with the geomagnetic excursion that we are undergoing or the fact that our rotation has accelerated. 🤣 Must be humans pumping water. Can I still flush the toilet without the earth moving?🤣

@coreyspowell @theAGU Interesting. That we can measure that, that there even is an measurable effect. If probably not of greater consequences (the shift that is, not the ground water pumping), it kind of underlays the incredible scale of it all.