Satellite data reveals climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean

Climate change is causing South Africa to rise and sink at the same time « JoNova

By Jo Nova A candidate for this years Cult Science Oscar: The Coal Plant God is at it again — causing the oceans to swallow South Africa on the one hand and lifting up the land by 2mm a year with the other. (A lucky coincidence that disguises the horrors of rising seas, eh?). Apparently we used to think the land was rising due to hot plumes of magma far below, but now researchers say its because a drought has made the crustal plate lighter. Even

Satellite data reveals climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean

South Africa’s surface is rising. Slowly, almost invisibly, some areas are lifting by as much as two millimeters each year. Scientists long believed this was caused by forces deep beneath the Earth—hot plumes of mantle rock pushing upward over thousands of kilometers. But new research reveals a different, more immediate cause: drought. Instead of heat from below, the Earth’s crust in parts of South Africa appears to be lifting due to water loss …

South Africa's country rises millimeters by millimeter. A German research team makes a discovery with global significance.