View Full Version : Is the western US turning into a Sahara?
Big Booger
September 15th, 2005, 12:48 PM
I was looking on Google Earth and it looks to me like it's turning into a giant Sahara from California all the way to the western edge of the midwest..
I know that area is dry, but is it like the Sahara? I was a bit shocked by how dry it looks.... Maybe it's just the coloring of google earth... but it looked wierd.
driviere
September 15th, 2005, 13:28 PM
LA itself was a desert until all the water projects in the '50's ...
Read Cadillac Desert ... We've screwed up a lot up native land and waterways for the sake of over develping in previous semi-uninhabitable areas... oops sorry 'bout the rant...:p
Big Booger
September 16th, 2005, 00:06 AM
LA itself was a desert until all the water projects in the '50's ...
Read Cadillac Desert ... We've screwed up a lot up native land and waterways for the sake of over develping in previous semi-uninhabitable areas... oops sorry 'bout the rant...:p
I was surprised. I mean I knew that that area had been reclaimed, but the scope of the arid land is enormous.. I wonder if it is growing and if one day the western US will be nothing but desert.
efc
September 16th, 2005, 04:32 AM
I was surprised. I mean I knew that that area had been reclaimed, but the scope of the arid land is enormous.. I wonder if it is growing and if one day the western US will be nothing but desert.
Or maybe an ocean or a glacier. Only time will tell.:rolleyes:
joshsiao
September 16th, 2005, 12:38 PM
Hmm... Then you should read the National Geographic Magazine a few months back. It had a article pertaining the desertification of the Western US. Its mainly due to redirection of rivers for agriculture. Also due to climatic changes that is causing the esatern US to be wetter and the western desert to grow.
Big Booger
September 16th, 2005, 12:54 PM
Hmm... Then you should read the National Geographic Magazine a few months back. It had a article pertaining the desertification of the Western US. Its mainly due to redirection of rivers for agriculture. Also due to climatic changes that is causing the esatern US to be wetter and the western desert to grow.
I read the same article josh. It was interesting and scary at the same time.
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