Another bit of climate doom. Yes, this is mostly caused by humans, and to some degree, mostly natural climatic changes, but, it is not global, and mostly goes to things like land use
Climate change, humans shrinking lakes by trillions of gallons a year, study finds
Climate change‘s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds.
A close examination of nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes found they are losing about 5.7 trillion gallons (21.5 trillion liters) a year. That means from 1992 to 2020, the world lost the equivalent of 17 Lake Meads, America’s largest reservoir, in Nevada. It’s also roughly equal to how much water the United States used in an entire year in 2015.
Even lakes in areas getting more rainfall are shriveling. That’s because of both a thirstier atmosphere from warmer air sucking up more water in evaporation, and a thirsty society that is diverting water from lakes to agriculture, power plants and drinking supplies, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science.
Authors also cited a third reason they called more natural, with water shrinking because of rainfall pattern and river runoff changes, but even that may have a climate change component. That’s the main cause for Iran’s Lake Urmia to lose about 277 billion gallons (1.05 trillion liters) a year, the study said.
First off, the climate is always going to change. No need to invoke witchcraft for this. During the last glacial age the Mediterranean was barely present, with the Atlantic Ocean being so low. When it ended, the Atlantic rose, water was released from glaciers, and the Med became what it is today. The land use and diversion of water is the primary cause.
The article uses as their primary example the loss of water from the Aral Sea. Well, even Warmist NASA said the primary cause was water diversion. But, the great thing about propaganda is that a story like the above is being broadcast and repeated throughout the media, with no pushback, no journalistic skepticism, so, who’s going to look for the truth?
What happened to the Aral sea is an old and very well known story. The USSR wanted to irrigate some places to grow cotton for export. They diverted, intentionally, all of the water from sources for the Aral Sea. you can easily make the claim that this is an environmental and ecological disaster area (just like most of the rest of the old Soviet Union and China today. And you can make the claim that it is man-made. But if anything, it is a cause of climate change, not extra CO2.