Is The Times New Global Warming Atlas Legit?

The Daily Mail informs us:

The effects of global climate change are clear to see on the latest world maps.

In the four years since the last edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World went on sale, cartographers have been forced to redraw coastlines and reclassify types of land.

Naturally, the most dramatic changes to the atlas would be heading the article, so let's see how they do as regards Global Warming.

They highlight the Aral Sea in central Asia, reduced by three-quarters in the past 40 years, and Lake Chad, which has shrunk by 95 per cent since 1963.

The Aral Sea: Since the 1960s the Aral Sea has been shrinking, as the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) were diverted by the then Soviet Union for irrigation.

Lake Chad: a remnant of a former inland sea which has grown and shrunk with changes in climate over the past 13,000 years. At its largest, around 4000 BC, this lake is estimated to have covered an area of 400,000 km² ... An increased demand on the lake's water from the local population has likely accelerated its shrinkage over the past 40 years.

The Dead Sea is some 25 metres lower than it was 50 years ago.

The Dead Sea: Sometime around 10,000 years ago the lake level dropped dramatically, probably to levels even lower than today.

And sections of rivers including the Rio Grande and Colorado in America, the Tigris in the Middle East, and the Yellow River in China are now drying out each summer.

The Rio Grande is over-appropriated, that is, there are more users for the water than there is water in the river.

The Colorado River:  the heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for the Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea.

Global Warming doesn't appear to be changing the globe, at least not to the extent some might like us to believe. Good thing we have the Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World to take care of that little problem, I suppose.

Comments

[bloodrage bob]

"the aral sea done dried up!" (never mind the fact the soviets *caused that to happen*)

so at what point do the myriad inaccuracies of the global warmening crowd cease to be 'yet another honest mistake', and start to be seen more properly as 'shameless lies told to advance a political agenda'? (this also includes lies of omission, as well. i'm seeing stats that say *mars* is warming, too. perhaps due to the fact the sun appears to be shining brighter/hotter these days? who knows? the GW crowd "prefers not to discuss this.")

when *weather* "activists" say things like "no time for talking! shut up and give us more money & control over your life", *just like all left-wing political philosophies do*, deep suspicion is only natural. in related news, leftwing socialist hypocrite john edwards - running for president as a democrat- has announced some details of his 'healthcare for all' plan. as noted on drudge, it'll involve *mandatory* doctor visits and monitoring and treatment. rather like the global warmening gang's methods, no? wonder what'd happen should someone refuse to follow the plan? think the response would involve men with guns breaking down that person's door?

don't recall seeing the word "mandatory" in the constitution last i checked ...

[Lord Nazh]

I read this 'article' this morning too Dan. It was amazing that the claim of Global warming 'drastically' changing the globe in the last 4 years was backed up by changes to the globe in the last 40 years...

[seekeronos]

Big Mama Gub'mint (nanny state) don't care none for no proles who done stepped out of line, and she don't take no guff from nobody. She gonna come whoop yo' fannies with the Socialist Switch.

[seekeronos]

Oh, and that Colorado River not trickling so nice? Might be that huge slab o' concrete near Las Vegas stopping up the works (Lake Havasu).

[Philip McDaniel]

"Oh, and that Colorado River not trickling so nice? Might be that huge slab o' concrete near Las Vegas stopping up the works (Lake Havasu)."

Not to mention the one above the Grand Canyon at Glen Canyon.

On the other hand, didn't global warming create the Grand Canyon a few years back? Seems to me I read that somewhere...maybe Scientific American or was it Newsweek or Time?

[chris]

JESUS created the Grand Canyon. Everyone knows that. He made it about 5,000 years ago.

[Philip McDaniel]

LOL...actually back in the 60's I hiked through parts of the Grand Canyon and not far below the north rim came across a pumping station run by a Mormon who assured me that the canyon was created on the night Chirst died. Not one to argue, I thanked him for the information and continued on....

[chris]

Was that pumping station run by a guy named Willard? Did he have perfect hair and a phony smile?