Posted on 09/21/2022 9:52:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A recent CNN article titled “The World's Rivers are Drying Up from Extreme Weather. See How 6 Look from Space” purports to argue that rivers -- for example, the Colorado, Yangtze, Rhine, Po, Loire, and Danube -- are dwindling due to “a painful lack of rain and relentless heat waves.” The article concludes that “the human-caused climate crisis is fueling extreme weather across the globe,” which is responsible for making these rivers shrink in both length and breadth and, potentially, become virtually impassable.
While it is true that these rivers are indeed in low-flow conditions, it has long been argued that floods, droughts, and streamflow are driven by several factors in addition to precipitation. Yes, a lack of precipitation over an extended period of time will likely cause low flows in the area’s rivers. But it is not necessarily true that the existence of low flows indicates that a lack of precipitation was the culprit. Humans need water not just to survive, but to carry out a variety of water-intensive industries including paint and coating manufacturing, paper mills, wineries, and pesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing, for example. Agriculture too has a high demand for water, and the simple increase in population may tax existing water supplies.
So, it is unrealistic to simply assume that low flows in the six rivers upon which the CNN article focuses are caused by a lack of rainfall and the “relentless heat waves” that have supposedly swept the planet. In fact, the usual mantra from the climate alarmists is that rainfall will increase, not decrease.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Sun?........................
Beaver dams?
Everyone needs to stop drinking water and drink beer instead.
Lack of water must be involved somehow.
Thirsty people?
TRUMP! of course.
I call bullspit. It couldn’t’ve excaped our atmosphere. There is as much air and water on this planet and in our atmosphere as there was on the day God created it.
Where does the water go when it’s not in the rivers?
Hint: It doesn’t cease to exist, it simply changes location.
If there is a ‘shortage’ of water, how do we have more plant life on earth now than we did a century ago?
In the summer they dry up... In the spring, they flood... That’s what rivers do and have been doing for eons. Doh!
all those illegal aliens invaders drink and use water!
Meanwhile, the people of Kentucky, India and The Phillipines were and are being washed away in floods.
Why are rivers drying up? It’s probably due to some combination of
Trump
White racism
Putin
Election deniers
Conservative talk radio
Oh, and of course Climate Change. Everything bad is it least partially due to Climate Change.
Or Brawndo.
SUV’s are drying up the rivers.
Indeed. But Lake Meade is down at least 170 feet from normal and Lake Powell is down approx. 153 feet. So the water has to be somewhere. I’d say it has more to do with injudicious use of water resources by an ever increasing population and infrastructure. When 2 people pull their daily needs of water from a 10 gallon bucket, it is easily replenished. When 100 people do the same...there will be problems.
Man is NOT in control of the climate!
looks like American Thinker needs to concentrate more on thinking than pandering to stupid people...
Probably an explosion in the population of sea sponges caused by global warming
supply and demand......Colorado river supply has been more or less constant on average the last 20 years....demand from NV, AZ, CA, etc., has increased steadily over the same time frame...
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