10% was nothing. The bulk of the lake was drained and evaporated in the last 50 years.
Posted on 05/27/2012 8:30:55 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Comminists were in charge of the water. ‘Nuf said.
From kuriositas?
The wonders of communism.
They just need to put communists back in charge of the dessert, and they will run out of sand.
Also the wonders of out of control environmentalism.
Here in California, our once verdant Central Valley has become a dust bowl in large sections, due to water being withheld from farmers for dubious, political motivations.
Must not offend the “green” voting block, y’know...
That’s what kills me about the idiots on the left.
They support communism in the name of environment, equality, and human rights and those are all the primary victims of communism.
I on the other hand am a pro private, capitalist, environmentalist. I love nature and know that nothing protects it better than making it profitable.
If enviro-Nazis want to see a REAL disaster, they can forget “global climate change” and look at the Aral Sea. And it was all caused by their best friends, the Communists.
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It would appear that the Soviets built this fishing village miles inland in anticipation of rising sea levels due to man-made global warming.
sounds like Chinatown and Owens Valley/Lake
There are several lakes in California suffering the same fate, but a much smaller scale: docks, boat ramps and pleasure marina’s high and dry, akaline lake bed exposed, unhealthy dust blowing into neighboring communities.
All because too much water was diverted for other uses (too much to maintain the lake levels).
“I love nature and know that nothing protects it better than making it profitable.”
I’m old enough to remember when the Sierra Club actually promoted visiting the great outdoors, and encouraged people to get out and hike in wilderness areas.
Now, they want these area off limits to all human activity. Except them, of course.
Our assistant scoutmaster back in the mid-1960s had a 4 wheel drive Dodge Powerwagon, and he was a devoted Sierra Club member who loved his motorized transport to the back country.
Today they’d hang him from the highest redwood.
Two very telling images of this event. The first is a GIF file, showing the shrinking sea (and identifying the location of Mo’ynoq).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aral_Sea.gif
The second showing satellite imagery from 2009:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Aral_Sea_Continues_to_Shrink%2C_August_2009.jpg
Absolutely devastating what the Communists have done to the region.
Oh, and one more thing. You see that island in the western part of the sea? Which eventually became a peninsula, and eventually part of the mainland itself? It’s called “Vozrozhdeniya”. This article makes no mention of it, but it has a very sinister past from the Soviet era. Needless to say, I don’t think it’s just pollution and salt that’s sitting on the former lake bed making people sick.
The Soviets diverted the water from several rivers from flowing into the Aral Seal to be used for raising cotton and anotherr crop in semi-arid regions, thus denying the water to the Aral sea and turning it into a desert mudhole, while the cotton never got enought water to grow, among other conditions that made the area illsuited to the crop, but this did not stop the Soviet 5 year plan.
One can see this coming in a 2nd obama adimistration: coal mines and coal fired electrical plants closing, cars being orderto run on E-85 ethanol, which will destroy all currurent engines more than a coupple of years old, thus leaving people with out transportation in the country side. windmills that don’t produce affordable electricty, thus folks freeze ein the winter and die of overheating in the airconditionedless summers.
Guess it wasn't important enough to do squat about. Same as everything Liberal. They bitch and moan but want the peasants to do it. While they fly around in the private jets.
I guess their friend Gorby wasn't listening to them. So F*ck them.
Ed
Looks to me like they have a good opportunity to begin hosting a national sand castle building contest.
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