Lake Mead Low Water Levels: Overuse, Not Climate Change

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    The media promoting more lies and baloney the evidence is really easy to find what is the true cause of the decline.

    Watts Up With That?

    From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Global Warming Blog

    August 24th, 2022 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

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    Lake Mead Low Water Levels: Overuse, Not Climate Change

    UPDATED: Fixed Bureau of Reclamation study link, added Colorado River basin snowpack graph and discussion.

    In today’s news is yet another article claiming the record-low water levels in Lake Mead (a manmade water reservoir) are due to human-caused climate change. In fact, to make the problem even more sinister, the Mafia is also part of the story:

    Climate change is uncovering gruesome mafia secrets in this Las Vegas lake

    While it is true that recent years have seen somewhat less water available from the Colorado River basin watershed (which supplies 97% of Lake Mead’s water), this is after years of above-average water inflow from mountain snowpack. Those decadal time-scale changes are mostly the result of stronger El Nino years (more mountain snows) giving way to stronger La Nina years (less snow).

    The result is record-low water levels:


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    Here is part two showing that population increase is the dominant cause of the MAN-MADE Reservoir level decline.

    Lake Mead Low Water Levels, Part 2: Colorado River Inflow Variations and Trend

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    Four More Inches Of Megadrought In New Mexico
    Posted on September 15, 2022 by tonyheller

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    New Mexico is having one of their wettest years on record, with some parts of the state having received more than 20 inches of rain over the past three months and another four inches in the forecast for this week.

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