Paul Voosen: Brown is the dryer areas and blue is the mostly counteracting wetter areas. Red is the melting glaciers. There's nothing to counter that. Groundwater pumping is totally an important issue! But this framing seems a little problematic.

Paul Voosen voosen.me · Sep 4, 2025
A lot of people are being misled by that paper. They separate the continents into areas getting dryer or wetter -- but then only emphasize the dry while leaving out how the wetter areas are subtracting from SLR. Look at this graphic from it.
- Rob Carlson robcarlson.bsky.social · Sep 4, 2025
  "two primary causes: rising temperatures unleashed by using oil and gas, and widespread overpumping of water...eventually ends up as rain, measurably increasing sea level rise." 👀 "now contribute more to sea level rise than melting of mountain glaciers or the Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets."
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Paul Voosen voosen.me
Brown is the dryer areas and blue is the mostly counteracting wetter areas. Red is the melting glaciers. There's nothing to counter that. Groundwater pumping is totally an important issue! But this framing seems a little problematic.
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