Interesting article on the long range weather and its effect along with what mankind is doing.
From the NTYT
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces 'An Environmental Nuclear Bomb'
SALT LAKE CITY — If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store:
The lake’s flies and brine shrimp would die off — scientists warn it could start as soon as this summer — threatening the 10 million migratory birds that stop at the lake annually to feed on the tiny creatures. Ski conditions at the resorts above Salt Lake City, a vital source of revenue, would deteriorate. The lucrative extraction of magnesium and other minerals from the lake could stop.
Most alarming, the air surrounding Salt Lake City would occasionally turn poisonous. The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, windstorms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents, who make up three-quarters of Utah’s population.
More here at
https://www.yahoo.com/news/great-salt- ... O9YUuDjmyq
I asked my SIL who has a PhD in Environmental Science, lives in North Logan Utah and works for Campbell Scientific about this article. She said they are worried but Utah is not doing much to try and reverse the problem because of the effect on the economy. North Logan is almost in Idaho and they are worried about te lack of snow pack that supplies their water supply and the runoff they don’t use goes to the rivers that eventually run into the Great Salt Lake.
Just wait till someone tell Elon Musk the Great Salt Lake contains Lithium just like te Salton Sea in California. He will then try to buy the whole thing and start mining it.