Great Salt Lake dry-up causing dangerous climate ripple effect, ecologists say l ABCNL
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All Comments (21)
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Scientists have been warning about this since I was a child and I have grey hair coming in. Unfortunately, sometime in the early 80s, we went from a country that could surmount any challenge, to a helpless country that could only address issues if the solutions were profitable enough to a small group of the wealthy. We get what we deserve.
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everyone wants this solved, but no one wants to actually do anything. They want the other person to sacrifice.
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we've known for half a century this was coming... and we did nothing.
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The Eel river in Humboldt County (classified as a rainforest and home of the giant redwoods) stopped running for a week last summer. First time in recorded history. It's going to be even dryer next year. 😥
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The state never prepared for this. They believed that they could over use the environment and profit from it. Now millions are at risk.
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I went back to my home town in Mexico last week and the mountain river where my fondest memories were made is completely dry. Shocked and saddened. We can't fix nature but man can we f it up!!
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I live in Maine and all of our lakes are extremely low. I've never seen anything like it. Not in my lifetime
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I agree with so many of the comments. I am 55 and direct sunlight seems so much stronger and more intense than when I was a kid. A few years ago I got a sunburn sitting in a garage 2-3 feet away from the sun. I was stunned.
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The same drop in air quality and an explosion of respiratory illness happened when the Aral Sea dried out due to massive irrigation of the desert around it for cotton production. All the toxic dust at the bottom of the sea bed blew around the region. Summers got hotter, winters got colder without the mitigating effects of a large body of water.
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This goes way beyond Salt Lake; Lake Powell and Lake Mead are also at record lows; this is a systemic drought issue impacting the entire west from Canada all the way down to Mexico. (BEAR IN MIND the Salt Lake is NOT a water source for the city, they get their water from mountain streams, and it's drying up regardless)
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10 months later: The Great Salt Lake has had an all time record growth, 5.3' in elevation and still growing. 0% drought in the Great Salt Lake water basin.
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Only a matter of time, we just continue to ignore the signs and symptoms again and again, year after year. We keep living our high consumerism lifestyles and forget about the idea that we are all dependent on natural resources. It’s only a matter of time until the freshwater supply slowly dwindles to the point that it starts wars and other conflicts. We should’ve learned 50 years ago but we never did.
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Wait....I thought the Gov of Utah encouraged everyone to pray with him to end the drought. Amazing that it didnt work.
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So very sad and scary... Yet there is a particular party that still thinks climate change is a hoax!
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To bring in ocean water they would need to filter out many invasive species before adding it to the lake, not doing so could create the same problem regarding migration of the birds.
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High water use agriculture needs to be banned in Utah.
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I feel bad for future generations. We have truly made mistakes that cannot be forgotten.
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Drove past it a few days ago. It was shocking.
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Even in Europe with all their rivers, this summer is has been displaying extreme worrying signs of drought. While more in-land are facing drought problems, area's at seashores are seeing rising problem of water levels.
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I just passed by the great salt lake today and it’s not nearly as shallow as I thought it would be, I think it’s very slowly refilling up because all of utahs lake refill up during the winter because of all of the heavy snow fall during the winter
