Utah’s Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger. Without a significant increase in water flow over the next several years, the lake might turn into dust. That’s where things could get dangerous for the 2.5 million residents around the lake.
Recall we’ve already informed readers that declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake have created new challenges as dust laden with toxic metals threaten the region. It’s just now the worsening megadrought in the western half of the US has brought forward what some folks refer to as an impending ‘environmental nuclear bomb.’
In recent months, the lake level dropped to a historic low, exposing 800 square miles of lakebed that contain natural and artificial toxins, such as arsenic, mercury, and selenium.
As the drought situation deteriorates, the lakebed turns to dust and is whipped up into the air, which is ingested by the millions of residents surrounding it. Scientists told CNN the lake could evaporate within five years and trigger a “Great Toxic Dustbowl.”
“This is an ecological disaster that will become a human health disaster,” warned Bonnie Baxter, director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“We know about dust storms, we know about particulate pollution, we know about heavy metals and how they’re bad for humans,” Baxter told CNN. “We see a crisis that is imminent.”
Here are the latest images showing the Great Salt Lake water levels in 1987 on the left and 2022 on the right.
Most alarming, if water inflows aren’t increased naturally or artificially, then the air surrounding Salt Lake City will eventually turn poisonous. That development could severely impact the local economy. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
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California lakes appear to be filling. With Lake Oroville up 182 ft. since it’s lowest 2021 level.
And Lake Mendocino filling as the Russian River raged in flood stage.
Utah? Still screwed.
Language is subtle and programs the subconscious under the radar – which is why it is so controlled by the MSM and schools and political writers and cultural Marxist professors – and Hollywood, which uses symbols to express a thousand words.
“If a picture is worth a thousand words then a symbol is worth a thousand pictures.”
~ Weidner’s Second Law of the Universe
“Whatever ideas are the most suppressed are most likely to be the closest to the truth.”
~ Weidner’s First Law of the Universe
“The only people who call conspiracies ‘theories’ are the conspirators.”
~ Weidner’s Third Law of the Universe
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Remember when everything wasn’t either exaggerated, like “bomb” and “war” Remember a percent chance of snow – not a “threat”? Remember when something affected you, not “impacted”? HELP! HELP! Someone DO SOMETHING!!! It’s a BOMB!!! Senator who art in heaven, help us!
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Remember when it was a baby, not a “choice”?
The only reason abortion goes on, is that the BABY can’t fight back. If I run down a pregnant woman with my car, no court, blue or red, will not charge me with TWO homicides. So, if someone calls the baby “not a baby”, is it not a baby? Can I call someone subhuman and then kill them without criminal charge?
If I recognize people’s self-ownership, but then pull a magic lever in a magic alchemy voodoo box called a voting booth, and THEN do whatever I want to them, does going through the psycho OCD justification hamster ritual of voting make the lead of immorality into a pretend gold of morality? Isn’t majority-rule the same as jungle law?
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ― Ayn Rand
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.” ― Ludwig von Mises
The powers that be rule over us by the words we repeat to ourselves. By mind pollution.
Sigh.
OK, I’m gonna go outside and get some fresh air an exercise and remember that all of life was not always glowing blue screens, or at least nothing like the sky.
Premise of article: “Scientists told CNN the lake could evaporate within five years and trigger a “Great Toxic Dustbowl.”
George Carlin comes to mind–also the “be afraid, be very afraid”
I’d like to see someone do an updated version of that.
Really something that he picked up on “dis-information” so soon after termed was coined.
“Scientist”s””. Plural. Yet only one is quoted in article.
It must be true.
Difficult for CNN and other dishonest media to use the word “expert” anymore; too many have realized that expert means whoever paid the best gets my voice. Trying out just plain “scientist” now hoping it still means something after the Covid debacle…(clue) it doesn’t.
The picture of the dried up fish says it all.
Indeed it does. I wonder whether the Tylers at ZH could figure out why.
Just build more dams and population growth can continue right on, unrestrained. … that’s the solution, bruh.
Republicans got this!
Ogden • In a forum Thursday about what the federal government can do to save the shrinking Great Salt Lake, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee called for laxer regulations so states can more quickly build “effective water storage infrastructure projects.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/10/13/mike-lee-proposes-more-dams/
This is GODS punishment to the cult headquartered there for electing prettyboy PARASITE mittens……..over and over.
Enjoy the WRATH of JESUS you funky underwear wearing jackoffs !
Not like the Nation couldn’t of spent some of that 30 trillion in debt, funding massive desalination plants along the ocean and turning the worlds deserts into orchards and garden… then perfecting the tech and selling it to richer nations, and turn a profit using it to help the poor nations… nope not US
The government preferred to stir up shit around the world and create a permanent underclass rather than a lush green desert.
We built cities in the deserts and then call it historic drought when it get dry? It is only our hubris that made us think we could conquer nature.
Sounds alarmist not much detail.. Here in Nevada there are dead prehistoric lakes, some Salt flats, Alkaline flats,clay flats.. I have a dead lake a mile south of my home (just into California) clay flat it gets dusty.. Salt Lake is large and near a large population…but smells like a ‘climate change’ pitch..
Everyone is looking at this the wrong way. With all these new EV cars, we are going to need a larger Bonneville Salt Flats for speed testing. With the lake receding, the testing ground are getting bigger. Sounds like a win-win to me.