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2015-03-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

As Lakes Become Deserts, Drought is Iran's New Problem

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Not to worry: Allan has your back.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-23 02:16|| 2015-03-23 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Major seas + lakes across Eurasia are "mysteriously" suddenly drying up, + no one is seemingly even trying to question CHINA on its geologic studies, etc, behind its Three Gorges + even bigger post-Three Gorges future massive water projects.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-23 02:17|| 2015-03-23 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 They are overdrawing their water table and the dams upstream have reduced the replenishment below sustainment levels.

No mystery. No climate change. Just dams doind what they do: holding water back from where it would normally flow.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-23 03:35|| 2015-03-23 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 So let's just say it is climate change that's behind all this. Every cloud has a silver lining!

Dallas' climate-changed-drought seems to be changing again, with rainfall more than 2" over normal so far this year, and the reservoirs filling up again.

Hey! Maybe it's the man-made reservoirs that are the problem? [snicker]

Posted by Bobby 2015-03-23 07:40|| 2015-03-23 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Al-Cadillac Desert

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-03-23 10:29|| 2015-03-23 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Did you ever notice how deserts seem to follow the Religion of Peace every place it infects?

Actaullay I ahve read that in former Yugoslavia there was a distinct pattern of the territory of Muslm villages being dsitinctly drier than the ones of nearby Catholic or Orthodos vilalges.

Two possible reasons: 1) Because islam sets a people of nomadic herders, shhep and camel hers, as an example. Also pig herders, who require woods, didn't embrace Islam o changed jobs.

2) Because sheep herders were more likely than peasants to embrace a religion that requires mobile, mounted people for djihad.

Posted by JFM 2015-03-23 11:10|| 2015-03-23 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Finally - global warming I can support.

Posted by Raj 2015-03-23 11:25|| 2015-03-23 11:25|| Front Page Top

#8 IIUC, CHINA' views GWCC in seeming opposite to IRAN - China fears any intensifying GWCC will cause THREE GORGES + FOLLOW-ON PROJECTS TO OVERFLOW, NOT DRY UP as the former is designed to "channel" regional + trans-regional water flows to it, not away from it.

China repor takes its water woes seriously, in peace or war, so much so that Three Gorges per se + approaches are heavily defended by the PLA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-23 22:40|| 2015-03-23 22:40|| Front Page Top

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