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LAKE MEAD IS DRAINING,
NOT CLIMATE CHANGING
The media is promoting disinformation on the cause of the reservoir’s record-low level.
by ROY W. SPENCER WUWT September 7, 2022, 11:48 PM
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he water level in Lake Mead is reaching record lows and the popular narrative maintains that drought brought on by human-caused climate change is to blame. But the government’s own data from the Bureau of Reclamation shows this is not true...
As can be seen in the Bureau of Reclamation’s official estimate of the yearly natural water flows into Lake Mead, there has been no long-term trend in water flow into the reservoir.
Most of the water supplying the Colorado River at this location comes from snowmelt in the upper Colorado River watershed. The April snowpack in that region also shows no trend…
on July 22, Forbes published an article titled “Why Is Lake Mead Shrinking? Climate Change Is a Major Reason.” Also in July, NASA published “Lake Mead Keeps Dropping,” in which the agency stated the reservoir “provides a stark illustration of climate change.”
In fact, climate change does not even predict reductions in precipitation in the region that feeds water to Lake Mead...
Lake Mead is being drained. It’s not climate change."
Spencer ignores the equally dramatic fall in water level of the Great Salt Lake, which nobody is draining.
It too has fallen to record lows because radiative forcing from increased CO2 drives increased evaporation.
Witness these satellite images of Lake Mead taken before and after Roy's best-known visit to the area, noted here 8 years ago:
SaturSaturday, July 12, 2014
HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES
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