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Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.

 
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Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Last week, NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food — with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years.It’s the very definition of unsustainable.

Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.

Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The green fields that dot the desert draw on water that in part was trapped during the last Ice Age. In addition to rainwater that fell over several hundred thousand years, this fossil water filled aquifers that are now buried deep under the desert’s shifting sands.

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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Good for them. Exploit the earth or die.
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Good, soon they will have no oil and no water! Serves those terrorists right.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Who gives a rats ass what they do in their country. All the captain planets of the world need to mind their own business. We aren't world police. If the water is under their land they own it.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
You all are missing the bigger info. What inside information have they had about the plans for crushing American farmland and harvests that used to feed the world?

Hmmmm?

Thread: OUTRAGEOUS - Feds shut off water to Central Valley, bread basket of the world
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Thread: Calif Central Valley Which Supplies 1/4 of All Fruit & Veges in USA is a Dust Bowl Because of an Endangered Fish

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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
What good is 50 years worth of water under their feet?

So, fucking grow food in the desert for half a century and find another way to get water in the meantime.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Many areas of the US do the same thing. Texas, AZ, NM, Nevada all are depleting their fossil water.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Many areas of the US do the same thing. Texas, AZ, NM, Nevada all are depleting their fossil water.
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Libya GMRP
Google it.

That one was shut down in a hurry. Can't have a nation with oil on a gold standard, AND growing their own food...they might become self-sufficient, and stop borrowing money at interest.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
You know they have already developed condensers like they have in StarWars. Plenty of water everywhere, just needs to be built.
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Also, there are 3 oceans worth to be processed in the upper mantle I guess too.. (some article says)

De-salinate and presto.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Scientists have little to no understand of how the earth works

they have theories based on 'facts' in evidence.

Go back 150 or 200 years and look at most theories on any hard science - they have been disproved, corrected or refuted.

200 years from now most of what we believe to be scientific fact will have been disproved, refuted or laughed at as a simplistic answer.

Like other theories - we have no real knowledge of how these aquifers formed or how they were filled. But scientist have theories and they want to force modern humans to preserve something that they have declared precious over the needs of living humans.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
What good is 50 years worth of water under their feet?

So, fucking grow food in the desert for half a century and find another way to get water in the meantime.
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Good, soon they will have no oil and no water! Serves those terrorists right.
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The do seem to have a knack for one-dimensional thinking...
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
I hope they're growing trees.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
They're completely surrounded by water and have capacity for advanced: solar, wind/WAVE/TIDE alternative power, to desalinate to their hearts content, along with earth having a larger ocean underneath than above.

And they can recycle water that is used.

Then there are technologies based on cavitation and centipedal reaction.

So it depends on how tied into keeping roped into fossil fuels they are, for we live in abundance and have technologies that can do anything you can think of.

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If they had a brain in their heads they would desalinate water but just like every other nation they refuse to because "it's too hard".
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If they had a brain in their heads they would desalinate water but just like every other nation they refuse to because "it's too hard".
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With abundant energy this would be fine but you also have to deal with the brine waste [link to en.wikipedia.org]
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If they had a brain in their heads they would desalinate water but just like every other nation they refuse to because "it's too hard".
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With abundant energy this would be fine but you also have to deal with the brine waste [link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Like I said "Too Hard"

Energy can be attained from wind and solar sources and as for the brine waste it can be turned into fuel but hey why not use what we have and declare a jihad later and get what we need that way.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
If they had a brain in their heads they would desalinate water but just like every other nation they refuse to because "it's too hard".
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With abundant energy this would be fine but you also have to deal with the brine waste [link to en.wikipedia.org]
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I hope they're growing trees.
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Fuck trees, grow Brussels Sprouts.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
If they had a brain in their heads they would desalinate water but just like every other nation they refuse to because "it's too hard".
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That's why Americans show them how, and make money from their retardation...they'd still be eating sand and throwing rocks at each other if we didn't drill, pump, and pay them for the oil they sit on.

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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
You all are missing the bigger info. What inside information have they had about the plans for crushing American farmland and harvests that used to feed the world?

Hmmmm?

Thread: OUTRAGEOUS - Feds shut off water to Central Valley, bread basket of the world
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Oh please tell us the inside information. Oh, you don't have any..oh never mind. Fear sells, doom sells.
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Fossil water?

Ha, ha, ha!
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
Last week, NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food — with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years.It’s the very definition of unsustainable.

Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.

Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The green fields that dot the desert draw on water that in part was trapped during the last Ice Age. In addition to rainwater that fell over several hundred thousand years, this fossil water filled aquifers that are now buried deep under the desert’s shifting sands.

[link to grist.org]
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They will soon have some interesting sinkholes.
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So you dickheads want to have the freedom to collect water and grow your own food but condemn another race for doing the same. Seems legit.
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Last week, NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food — with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years.It’s the very definition of unsustainable.

Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.

Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The green fields that dot the desert draw on water that in part was trapped during the last Ice Age. In addition to rainwater that fell over several hundred thousand years, this fossil water filled aquifers that are now buried deep under the desert’s shifting sands.

[link to grist.org]
 Quoting: Operative


Same thing occurs in the US.

Look up the Peabody coal mining operation in the 4 Corners area - pristine Ice Age water from an aquifer that fed the springs of the Navajo and Hopi lands were drained by up to 3 million gallons of water PER DAY for many years.

They mixed this pure water equal parts with mined coal to produce a slurry that they could pump through a pipeline 273 miles away in Nevada. (The US government would not allow rail cars or something on Reservation Lands, so this was the brilliant option).

Then the water was separated from the coal and, instead of returning the contaminated water for the next batch of coal, it was dumped. Why bother recycling it when there was plenty back at the source. 3 million gallons per day of pristine and pure water, mind you.

The negotiations with the leadership of the Navajo and Hopi (many of the leadership are Morman, and are NOT those who believe in native traditions and values) to allow this travesty, were suspect to say the least.

Many of the springs that the Hopi and Dine relied upon for irrigation and watering their grazing animals, dried up or decreased dramatically in production.

Their corn, a special corn with roots able to drill deep to find water, was less productive.

Perhaps we should fix our own nation before criticizing another.
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Re: Saudis are irrigating the desert with fossil water from the last Ice Age that will be gone completely in 50 years.
You all are missing the bigger info. What inside information have they had about the plans for crushing American farmland and harvests that used to feed the world?

Hmmmm?

Thread: OUTRAGEOUS - Feds shut off water to Central Valley, bread basket of the world
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Oh please tell us the inside information. Oh, you don't have any..oh never mind. Fear sells, doom sells.
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You cut off the source of the inside info when you quoted the OP there

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