NASA images reveal shocking scale of Aral Sea disaster

[InRareForm]

NASA images reveal shocking scale of Aral Sea disaster

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/01/nasa-images-reveal-shocking-scale-aral-sea-environmental-disaster/

[Wild Cobra]

Have you seen the Colorado River lately?

[DeadlyDynasty]

I thought they said it was coming back, shit looks even worse:lol

[TDMVPDPOY]

buy my states desalination plant will solve ur issues, it has been sitting idle for 3 years now since completion by the french wankers the state hired to build it....

instead of turning that shit on to produce water for the rivers and creeks, they go chase farmers irrigation waters reserves....

[The Reckoning]

lol central asia

[Infinite_limit]

Use to be mostly underwater
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/169/cache/aral-sea-coast_16955_600x450.jpg




http://www.stormchaser.ca/Environmental_Disasters/Aral%20Sea/Aral_Sea_12.JPG

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/169/cache/aral-sea-ships-grounded-cows_16959_600x450.jpg

[spurraider21]

damn all that in 15 years. wonder how different the map will look in 100,000 years

[TeyshaBlue]

I know this is nowhere near the scale but Lake Thomas was at 1% capacity....<4 ft last month. The towns out in west Texas that depended on it were in serious trouble as all area reservoirs were heavily taxed. But the remnants of hurricane Odile blew thru with torrential rains for several days. Now it sits at about 50% capacity...49 ft. Pretty amazing transformation.

[RandomGuy]

Shows that we can markedly affect things.

Sad though, when one considers the human cost. Vibrant healthy local economies shot to shit and people with no place to go.

[TeyshaBlue]

Hubbard Creek Lake outside of Breckenridge Tx has virtually dissappeared along with a shit ton of businesses. It's hard to drive thru the place seeing all the vacant shops when I remember water skiing the lake a few decades ago. :depressed

[boutons_deux]

as if you BigCarbon shills were amenable to facts

New Satellite Maps Show World’s Major Ice Caps Melting at Unprecedented Rate

http://ecowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ice_Melting_in_Greenland.jpg


German researchers have established the height of the Greenland (http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/18/greenland-glaciers-losing-10-billion-tons-ice/) and Antarctic (http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/15/coastal-u-s-melting-antarctic-glacier/) ice caps with greater precision than ever before. And the new maps they have produced show that the ice is melting at an unprecedented rate.

The maps, produced with a satellite-mounted instrument, have elevation accuracies to within a few metres. Since Greenland’s ice cap is more than 2,000 metres thick on average, and the Antarctic bedrock supports 61 percent of the planet’s fresh water, this means that scientists can make more accurate assessments of annual melting.

Dr Veit Helm and other glaciologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (http://www.awi.de/en/institute/sites/bremerhaven/) in Bremerhaven, Germany, report in the journal The Cryosphere (http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1539/2014/tc-8-1539-2014.html) that, between them, the two ice sheets are now losing ice at the unprecedented rate of 500 cubic kilometers a year.

http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/01/greenland-antarctic-melting-climate-change/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=d5de65a693-Top_News_9_2_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-d5de65a693-85879165

[cantthinkofanything]

Interestingly, the pattern of water evaporation of the Aral Sea matches the pubic hair timeline on boutons crotch.

[xrayzebra]

Why is that Boutons? Temp hasn't gone up in 19 years.

[boutons_deux]

Why is that Boutons? Temp hasn't gone up in 19 years.

:lol take your meds

[cantthinkofanything]

Why is that Boutons? Temp hasn't gone up in 19 years.

no...not the temp. I was only referring to the loss pattern. bouton's loss is from chronic itching.

[boutons_deux]

NASA Satellite Images Reveal Shocking Groundwater Loss in Drought-Stricken California
http://ecowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NASAImages.jpg

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/03/nasa-satellite-groundwater-california-drought/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=9d17470dc7-Top_News_10_3_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-9d17470dc7-85879165

[boutons_deux]

With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate

But she has not had running water for more than five months — nor is there any tap water in her near future — because of a punishing and relentless drought in California. In the Gallegos household and more than 500 others in Tulare County, residents cannot flush a toilet, fill a drinking glass, wash dishes or clothes, or even rinse their hands without reaching for a bottle or bucket.

Unlike the Okies who came here fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the people now living on this parched land are stuck. “We don’t have the money to move, and who would buy this house without water?” said Ms. Gallegos, who grew up in the area and shares a tidy mobile home with her husband and two daughters. “When you wake up in the middle of the night sick to your stomach, you have to think about where the water bottle is before you can use the toilet.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/10/02/droughtmap/e96a0ec5fd84c95618116a0f431d13d1f3056041/1003-nat-webDROUGHTmap-Artboard_1.png


Now in its third year, the state’s record-breaking drought is being felt in many ways: vanishing lakes and rivers, lost agricultural jobs, fallowed farmland, rising water bills, suburban yards gone brown. But nowhere is the situation as dire as in East Porterville, a small rural community in Tulare County where life’s daily routines have been completely upended by the drying of wells and, in turn, the disappearance of tap water.

“Everything has changed,” said Yolanda Serrato, 54, who has spent most of her life here. Until this summer, the lawn in front of her immaculate three-bedroom home was a lush green, with plants dotting the perimeter. As her neighbors’ wells began running dry, Ms. Serrato warned her three children that they should cut down on long showers, but they rebuffed her. “They kept saying, ‘No, no, Mama, you’re just too negative,’ ” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/california-drought-tulare-county.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[RandomGuy]

Why is that Boutons? Temp hasn't gone up in 19 years.

Temp? What?

Link?

[RandomGuy]

N/M. Found something close.


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/05/no-global-warming-for-17-years-8-months/

More cherry picking, and conspiracy theory, with no real original attempt at science.

[pgardn]

Use to be mostly underwater
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/169/cache/aral-sea-coast_16955_600x450.jpg




http://www.stormchaser.ca/Environmental_Disasters/Aral%20Sea/Aral_Sea_12.JPG

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/169/cache/aral-sea-ships-grounded-cows_16959_600x450.jpg

Are you serious with that crap.
Shit, look at that big ole Grand Canyon, what did we do to create that big ole crack.
Now we gotta take a detour.

You sir, are seriously stupid. I got clam fossils in my backyard in SA... Who dun it? Who took my beachfront property away?

[boutons_deux]

N/M. Found something close.


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/05/no-global-warming-for-17-years-8-months/

More cherry picking, and conspiracy theory, with no real original attempt at science.

the global warming pause/cooling shit, financed by BigCarbon whores, has been thoroughly debunked.

US military and major corporations all accept AGW and are looking how to maintain their profits and power in the face of mass starvation and global uprisings (and how to profit from it, like corrupting politicians to sell them municipal water systems to be run for profit)

Miami and Chesapeake bay coastal cities are already experiencing serious ocean level rises, flooding.

I'm sure the capitalists/corps that caused the Banksters' Great Depression and then profited from it, have identified how they can profit from the AGW disaster(s). eg, they are buying into food and water all over the planet.

[angrydude]

When winters are unseasonably cold for the past 10 years its "just weather."

When a drought or hurricane or anything else happens that has nothing to do with CO2 its global warming.

Got it.

[Hoover]

What winter, WORLDWIDE, has been unseasonably cold?

A cold winter in the US does not mean the entire world had a cold winter.

And even last year's supposed "record cold" "polar vortex" winter in the US turned out to be ... not really that cold.

http://mashable.com/2014/03/14/winter-cold-2014-perspective/

LEARN THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEATHER AND CLIMATE!

[boutons_deux]

When winters are unseasonably cold for the past 10 years its "just weather."

When a drought or hurricane or anything else happens that has nothing to do with CO2 its global warming.

Got it.

winters have been WARMER for years, that's why permafrost is melting in Alaska and destroying roads, why the tundra is melting in Siberia and releasing Ms tons of methane, creating huge sink holes.

But, fucking FACTS don't fit your BigCarbon propaganda, so ignore them, even better, DENY them.

Anyway, the current BigCarbon/Repug propaganda tactic is to say, en chorus altogether, "I'm not a scientist" (so I, a whore corrupted by corporate money, refuse to do anything about AGW, esp not anything that would hurt BigCarbon profits and subsidies and therefore hurt my campaign's quid-pro-quo income)

[boutons_deux]

California’s Drought Is So Bad, Even Its Hydropower Is Drying Up (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/07/3576715/california-drought-hydropower/)
http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AP040316010046-e1412683925622-638x455.jpg


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/07/3576715/california-drought-hydropower/

[Winehole23]

not so much climate change, it would seem, as bad Soviet water policy and the post-Soviet struggle to capture water:


The borders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan straddle the former boundaries of the fast-drying sea. Soviet engineers in the 1950s started using water from the two rivers that supplied water to it, the Syr Darya in the north and the Amu Darya in the south, for the irrigation of farms.


By 2001, the disappearing lake had split into two halves, one smaller northern segmant and another larger southern half. By building a dam between the northern and southern halves in 2005, Kazakhstan tried to stem the shrinkage of the northern part of the sea. Engineers allowed the Syr Darya to continue to flow into the smaller, northern basin of the sea.


But for the larger, southern basin, the one that is now dry, the dam was a “death sentence” because it prevented the flow of water, NASA said.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/1/aral-sea-shrink.html