Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible. (barf)
Washington Post via MSN ^ | March 27, 2025 | Kasha Patel
Posted on 03/27/2025 3:55:14 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The amount of water stored on lands across Earth’s continents has declined at such staggering levels that changes are likely irreversible while humans are alive, a study published Thursday found.
The losses in soil moisture — a result of the planet’s climate conditions and prolonged droughts — already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But it also affects sea-level rise and Earth’s rotation — datasets the research team used to better track water storage for decades longer than previous studies.
“What we were looking for was evidence of changing hydrology around the world,” said Jay Famiglietti, co-author of the study published in Science. “What we found was this unprecedented decrease in soil moisture in the early part of the 21st century, which took us by surprise.”
The team found that from 1979 to 2016, the biggest soil moisture losses occurred between 2000 and 2002 — losing around 1,614 gigatons of water from land. The team estimated that it added to global mean sea-level rise at a rate of about 1.95 millimeters a year.
The startling contribution to rising sea levels was larger than Greenland’s ice loss around that time. Greenland contributed about 0.8 millimeters a year in recent decades. From 2002 to 2006, it lost about 900 gigatons.
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We're all going to die!!!!!
So the oceans are rising due to climate change, but fresh water is lowering. Obviously the fresh water loses must be flowing into the rising seas.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
This is all they could come up with ? LOL
2 posted on 03/27/2025 3:56:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
To: where's_the_Outrage?
We probably should kill ourselves now to avoid the rush.
3 posted on 03/27/2025 3:57:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Steaming bovine excrement.
There is no more or less water on this planet than there has ever been.
4 posted on 03/27/2025 3:57:48 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Come to N. Texas this spring and you will drown in mud.
5 posted on 03/27/2025 3:57:57 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
To: where's_the_Outrage?
So they’ll pass a law saying everyone has to pee in the yard.
And it has to be in the front so the specially assigned “yellow-shirts” can verify.
6 posted on 03/27/2025 3:58:32 PM PDT by fruser1
To: where's_the_Outrage?
But we’re saved....The glaciers are melting....so this little dissertation is a piece of cr**.
7 posted on 03/27/2025 3:58:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
To: where's_the_Outrage?
That means rainfall rates around the world should be increasing.
8 posted on 03/27/2025 4:01:51 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
To: antidemoncrat
It’s mud season here in NH.
It’s not called spring. It’s called mud.
And it is.
9 posted on 03/27/2025 4:02:45 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
The author. Another Gen Z'er who knows it all.
10 posted on 03/27/2025 4:05:11 PM PDT by simpson96
To: where's_the_Outrage?
One of those years had a cold and rainy summer here in RDU.
11 posted on 03/27/2025 4:05:44 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
To: clee1
“There is no more or less water on this planet than there has ever been.”
But it can be moved to other locations.
OTOH, at one time there was no water on Earth.
12 posted on 03/27/2025 4:06:22 PM PDT by TexasGator ('1'111'111111111/)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
changes are likely irreversible while humans are alive...
Don’t have to read between the lines to see what they want :)
13 posted on 03/27/2025 4:07:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: simpson96
Did she also come up with the insane and stupid Social Distancing ? LOL
14 posted on 03/27/2025 4:08:43 PM PDT by butlerweave
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Gee...whatever could be the cause?? /s
15 posted on 03/27/2025 4:10:01 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
To: clee1
That’s what I’ve always thought.
Water isn’t ‘lost’, it just changes form and moves around; and it does so constantly.
16 posted on 03/27/2025 4:11:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Do these propagandists even remember the definition of weather?
To: where's_the_Outrage?
“What we were looking for was evidence of changing hydrology around the world,” said Jay Famiglietti, co-author of the study published in Science. “What we found was this unprecedented decrease in soil moisture in the early part of the 21st century, which took us by surprise.”
'We were looking for something so we designed an experiment to find it and we found it.'
Karl Pooper has questions.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
here we go again....
It’s too hot...
It’s too cold...
It’s to wet...
It’s too dry...
It’s too cloudy...
It’s too sunny...
It’s too bright...
It’s too dark...
Ad Infinitum.....
19 posted on 03/27/2025 4:15:03 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Really? Tell that to every victim of a hurricane. More water on this planet than land. We’re not running out of water, we’re running out of land due to over development.
20 posted on 03/27/2025 4:20:11 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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