is mostly attributable to groundwater redistribution brought on by extensive agricultural irrigation and human use.
An estimated 2,150 gigatons of groundwater were withdrawn and finally released into the seas between 1993 and 2010 alone. causing the water levels to increase by 0.24 inches worldwide.
“The redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole among climate-related causes,” says Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University.
Mass changes affect Earth’s tilt and spin, and these changes are greatly impacted when water migrates from midlatitude areas.
such as northwest India and western North America, into the seas. This discovery emphasizes how closely human activity and Earth’s planetary systems are related.
