Siberian Times
Posted on 08/27/2015 1:00:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In the northwestern United States, wildfire smoke has invaded major cities as millions of acres of land burn. On the other side of the world, infernos that have been burning for weeks – in a part of Siberia, no less – have turned the landscape into what resembles Hell on Earth.
Near Lake Baikal, the biggest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, large wildfires are sending huge amounts of smoke into the air, shrouding the popular vacation area in the middle of summer, Mashable said. The wildfires have been a combination of natural and man-made, the report added, and they've created so much smoke that they're easily visible from space.
"It feels like doomsday," an onlooker told the Siberian Times.
Through Aug. 12, wildfires have burned more than 540 square miles in Russia, according to Radio Free Europe. Most of those fires have raged in southern Siberia.
Lake Baikal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and 20 percent of the world's unfrozen freshwater can be found in this waterway, the Siberian Times also said. Aside from the environmental hazards created by the smoke rising into the atmosphere for weeks....
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Isn’t Baikal the lake the commies partially drained for the greater glory of the People’s foodstuffs?
Sorry, that was the Caspian sea.
And I do mean “was”. It’s like, gone man.
No thats the Aral Sea, and it wasnt just partially drained the canals that took water from the rivers that fed the Aral Sea ran dry and in return the Aral sea decreased by about 70 or so percent.
you are thinking of the Aral Sea. Not sure if there is much left of that once huge, freshwater lake.
Dangerous Carbon release. The IPCC needs to fix this.
The lake is home to the Baikal Seal. Russia has three species of freshwater seals that live in its landlocked lakes.
“Because of the composition of the soil in this part of the world, these fires are spewing unusually high amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to global warming.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
No, that’s the Aral sea way down south. Baikal is like one of the Great Lakes here. Freakin enormous and deep. Natural, not created with a dam.
Nope, Caspian sea is fine. Lot of oil there and that’s been an environmental issue they way they do it, but the Aral sea is the one with ships high and dry.
They built an irrigation canal and it drained it.
Sort of the reverse of what we did in the Salton Sea in California. The engineers did the canal thing and accidently filled a basin with brine water runoff and couldn’t stop it.
That is the crux of the existence of the Salton Sea?
That’s pretty cool; I had no idea.
Sometimes I pass over it when flying into OC or SD CA, and it is amazing the amount of farmland around it, and encroaching into it almost. I just assumed that salt would render the area un-growable.
Hell?
Been there.. Done that.. ;-)
The Baikhonur(Sic) space launch center, the Russian version of our Cape Canaveral, was near Lake Baikal.
Looks like a map of the Siberian Traps.
Kazakistan, about 2000 miles from Baikal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome
Baikal is indeed the largest fresh water lake in the world. It freezes over in winter and the Russians use it as a superhighway.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world when measuring surface area, Baikal is largest by volume.
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