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In reply to the discussion: THE FREAKING MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS DRYING UP. [View all]Botany
(72,534 posts)... problem w/the Mississippi. If these kinds of really low water levels were common then the old
boats and barges that sunk clear back to prior to the civil war would have been exposed before
now. And all the rivers that feed into the Mississippi river drainage basin are they going to be able
to recharge the ground water along their banks if their levels drop too.
It is the ghost forests of cedar trees in New Jersey along the coast, it is areas the size of 2 or 3
city blocks of peat and permafrost exploding in Siberia releasing tons of methane as the ground
warms up, it is the crashing of the crab populations in the Bering Sea as the ocean warms, it is the
Po River in Italy, it is ground level forest fires in the boreal forests around lake Superior (normally
you have a lower level that is almost always damp with rotting logs, ferns, moss, and wet shit),
it is the world wide crashing of the earth's insect populations, it is with the rising sea levels as
the world's ice melts that salt water is now working it's way into former fresh/brackish water in
the rivers & wetlands, and as the temps rise white tail deer move north into "moose country"
in northern Minnesota bringing their diseases with them (brain worm???) and the moose populations
are crashing.
The science of higher concentration of CO2 holding heat goes back to more than >220 years ago.