[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: due to climate change, the shrinking of inland waters such as the Dead and Aral Seas, and the drying up of rivers such as the Colorado River are all documented ::

Yes, and heavy petro-fueled industries caused the Great Sauk Sea to disappear in the Cambrian period.

[Betis70]

>>the drying up of rivers such as the Colorado River are all documented

I didn’t read the entire article, but a huge WTF on that one. Hello crazy BBC writer, all the water being sucked out of the Colorado River to fuel housing booms in Phoenix, Las Vegas and LA has more to do with that than any climate change.

[hinckley buzzard]

The Aral Sea has shrunk to a mere vestige of its former self due to large scale Soviet irrigation and engineering projects. The Aral was dead thirty years ago. "Climate change" had nothing to do with it.

Dittoes the Colorado river, totally oversubscribed, to the extent it has reduced flow.

The Dead Sea, I dunno why it's shrinking. But this illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the media, British as well as Amurkin. You just cannot trust any reporter, on anything, any more.