Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Climate change is squishing the Earth and making oceans heavier

A new study reveals that the ocean floor may be sinking under the weight of heavier oceans as a result of climate-change-induced glacier melting and sea level rise. Scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands discovered that the deforming impact of a heavier ocean on the seafloor is too large to be accurately measured using traditional satellite altimeters. This means that measurements of sea level rise, based on the assumption, static seafloor level, may be inaccurate. Researchers...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/climate-change-is-squishing-the-earth-and-making-oceans-heavier
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