July 30, 2019
Turns out there are sea-sized bodies of fresh water under the oceans.
According to a Quartz article:
As told in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, scientists from Columbia University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution spent 10 days on a research ship towing electromagnetic sensors from New Jersey to Massachusetts. By measuring the way electromagnetic waves traveled through fresh and saline water, researchers mapped out fresh-water reservoirs for the first time.
It turns out the subterranean pools stretch for at least 50 miles off the US Atlantic coast, containing vast stores of low-salinity groundwater, about twice the volume of Lake Ontario. The deposits begin about 600 ft (183 m) below the seafloor and stretch for hundreds of miles. That rivals the size of even the largest terrestrial aquifers.
We know so little of this world we live in, and yet we presume to know what will happen to the Earth's climate in a hundred, a thousand years. It's like ancient Greek philosophers trying to argue physics with Albert Einstein, and insisting they know more.
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