Posted on 05/02/2022 12:51:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The level of the Dead Sea is currently dropping by more than a meter every year. But this is not new, according to German and Israeli researchers who maintain that the level of the salty lake also dropped millennia ago. At the end of the last ice age, for example, the water level dropped by 250 meters within a few thousand years...
Dr. Daniela Müller and Prof. Achim Brauer from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, together with Dr. Yoav Ben Dor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studied 15,000-year-old sediments from the Dead Sea and the surrounding area using newly developed methods. With unprecedented accuracy, they showed that the long period of drought was interrupted by wet periods lasting 10 to 100 years. This also offers new insights into the settlement history of this region, which enables better assessments of current and future developments driven by climate change, they wrote...
For example, during the transition from the last ice age to the Holocene, the water level of Lake Lisan dropped by about 240 meters in the period from 24,000 to 11,000 years ago, eventually leading to its transition into today’s Dead Sea...
New, high-resolution analytical methods including x-ray fluorescence scanners, were developed for the study at the GFZ to collect precise information from the stratification of the sediments and their geochemical composition...
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Reed Sea for chariots
The climate has only changed in the last 200 years. Before that every square inch of the planet was benign and hospitable /s
Israel has a long term plan for water. Its desalination. They now produce desalinated seawater for $500@acre foot. That’s about the cheapest in the world. (Singapore get similar numbers. The gulf states do cheaper but they use their own oil and gas reserves to power their plants.)
There’s half a dozen or so big desalination plants now in Isreal. The water if first pumped to their cities. Then its cleaned up and sent to their farms.
Basically, the Israelis have become water independent. The arabs have noticed.
The earth’s climate has been changing for 4,540,000,000 years (give or take 40,000,000). And mankind hasn’t had a flippin’ thing to do with it yet.
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