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Out Of Africa
Science News Magazine | 9-29-2001 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 10/08/2001 7:51:53 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/543092/posts
"One of the most prolific spawning grounds for dust today is the Bodele depression, a low-lying area that was once part of Lake Chad. Although this lake on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert was about the size of Lake Erie in the mid-1960s, the recent lack of rain and the increased demand for water for irrigation has caused Lake Chad to shrink to 5 percent of that area."
Ice Dissapearing from Kilimanjaro?
Let me guess. It's the all the pollution. NOT
MSNBC ASSOCIATED PRESS | Oct. 17th, 2002 | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 10/18/2002 5:29:24 PM EDT by Yzerman
"An extremely wet period evidenced in the ice corings matches independent studies that showed about 11,000 years ago the lakes in Africa spilled across vast areas of the continent. Lake Chad, for instance, said Thompson, grew until it covered 135,000 square miles, about the size of the present day Caspian Sea. The African lake now is only about 6,500 square miles... That wet period ended and the ice corings show that Africa slid into a deep drought about 4,000 years ago."
And that would be Bush's fault of course.
Ancient lakes of the Sahara
Innovations Report | Jan 19, 2006 | University of Reading
Posted on 01/21/2006 4:14:03 AM PST by Tyche
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1562135/posts
Owens River water flows into the Los Angeles aqueduct.
Darn, this bugs me, because I've always been used to seeing Lake Chad (and the Aral Sea, for that matter) on maps. I hate to see it turn into merely a depression.
