Lake Mead and Climate Change

[Matt Dillon]

So what?

So it's an unintended consequence that can kill off estuaries and other aquatic wildlife and flora. AKA: It's not feasible.

[Lightbringer]

So it's an unintended consequence that can kill off estuaries and other aquatic wildlife and flora. AKA: It's not feasible.

I gotta say...you sound a lot like those people saying mankind is destroying the atmosphere. Whatever salt does accrue won't affect anything more than the local area. If it matters at all.

[Matt Dillon]

I gotta say...you sound a lot like those people saying mankind is destroying the atmosphere. Whatever salt does accrue won't affect anything more than the local area. If it matters at all.

It mattered a lot more than you think it would when they tried it. To the point where it's not a viable option.

[Lightbringer]

It mattered a lot more than you think it would when they tried it.

Awesome, do you have science or "the science"?

Tell me how those plants poisoned the sea around them.

[Matt Dillon]

Awesome, do you have science or "the science"?

Tell me how those plants poisoned the sea around them.

It's 2 AM, no.

[Lightbringer]

It's 2 AM, no.

It could be 2 PM you still wouldn't have the receipts Einstein.

[cancel2 2022]

you can have what we flush down our toilets.......

Isn't Hudson Bay saltwater?

[Phantasmal]

Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam, has been in the news lately, thanks to multiple bodies being found there, as dropping water levels reveal parts of the lake that have been underwater since it was originally filled after the dam was built. The sheer magnitude of the decline is amazing. We're used to seeing lakes dry up where the lake was fairly shallow at the best of times. But Lake Mead is now about 162 feet below the level it was at as recently as 2000. The West is drying out, and while we might get some intermittent relief, climatologists predict that on average it'll just get worse and worse, thanks to our failure to curb greenhouse gases.

I’ve witnessed the change, it’s so very frightening.

[ThatOwlWoman]

OK! We'll have to go for the Hudson Bay then!

That's salt water. Don't you have some of that out there? I believe they call it "the Pacific." lol

[ThatOwlWoman]

Wow. That's bad. Mead has been a fascinating case study for years. They treat sewage at one end, and drink the water at the other.

Between runoff from fertilized lawns, and the birth control hormones in the sewage treatment plants, the lake is creating freaks of nature.

Good article, and terrifying as well.

[Doc Dutch]

Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam, has been in the news lately, thanks to multiple bodies being found there, as dropping water levels reveal parts of the lake that have been underwater since it was originally filled after the dam was built. The sheer magnitude of the decline is amazing. We're used to seeing lakes dry up where the lake was fairly shallow at the best of times. But Lake Mead is now about 162 feet below the level it was at as recently as 2000. The West is drying out, and while we might get some intermittent relief, climatologists predict that on average it'll just get worse and worse, thanks to our failure to curb greenhouse gases.

No doubt climate change is part of the problem but the major problem is twofold, IMO:

1. Population explosion. Not just California either.*

2. California tree hugger laws that prevent building more water reservoirs to accommodate the increases in population. The water has to come from somewhere and Lake Mead is “it”.


* https://www.ppic.org/publication/cal...as-population/

One in eight US residents lives in California.
With over 39 million people (according to July 2021 estimates), California is the nation’s most populous state—its population is much larger than that of second-place Texas (29 million) and third-place Florida (22 million).
California’s population is projected to reach 45 million people by 2050.

[Doc Dutch]

https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_anal..._5_part_1.html

as you an see, nothing new about lake levels dropping. has far more to do with excessive demand and snowfall / drought.

Agreed that population increases in the West and the drought probably have a lot more to do with it…but the drought could be a consequence of climate change.

[Matt Dillon]

It could be 2 PM you still wouldn't have the receipts Einstein.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/chispa-...coast/39950263

https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2022...omment-1468357

[Walt]

Plenty of water in Alaska. And I’d never consider living where there’s water restrictions.

Most of Alaska is a desert. It is a weird type of desert where there is lots of frozen water on the ground. Tundra often has very little rainfall, but what little water is put into the environment gets frozen and stuck there.

Global warming is going to change all that in ways we cannot conceive of yet. Alaska is one of those danger zones.

[anonymoose]

Most of Alaska is a desert. It is a weird type of desert where there is lots of frozen water on the ground. Tundra often has very little rainfall, but what little water is put into the environment gets frozen and stuck there.

Global warming is going to change all that in ways we cannot conceive of yet. Alaska is one of those danger zones.

Not only do we have no water restrictions but we pay one fee and use as much water as we want.
The tundra is most definitely not frozen in the summer. I work part time In Bethel and see the tundra flying in. Not only do the Kuskikwim and Yukon rivers flow through but there’s countless unnamed lakes that cover the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta which is the size of Texas. Water is unlimited.
You know squat about Alaska.