{"id":6269,"date":"2011-10-07T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:50","slug":"irrigation-raises-sea-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/10\/07\/irrigation-raises-sea-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation Raises Sea Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6270\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/10\/07\/irrigation-raises-sea-levels\/sprinkler-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sprinkler\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sprinkler&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6270\" title=\"Sprinkler\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that irrigation raises sea levels.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists calculated that irrigation and the subsequent runoff into the oceans accounted for 6% of the total rise in sea levels for 1900-2008.\u00a0 Since 1950, groundwater depletion has increased significantly.<\/p>\n<p>During 2000-2008, sea level rose 3.1 millimeters per year.\u00a0\u00a0 Groundwater runoff accounted for 0.40 millimeters per year during that same time, 13% of the total sea level rise.<\/p>\n<p>Image by <a title=\"Kumaravel's Flickr Stream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kumaravel\/\" target=\"_blank\">kumaravel<\/a>, used with Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that irrigation raises sea levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[2854,925,1113,1936],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sprinkler.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}