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Yangtze River Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues
- mrpopo 4y ago> “I don’t think we will see it again when the water level comes back.” I know it is hard to admit, but this is the new normal, and it will likely get worse before humanity gets its shit together.
- tintedfireglass 4y agowhat are you trying to imply? climate change?
- tuatoru 4y agoIn the case of the Yangtze, things are made worse by uncontrolled extraction of groundwater and river water in the valley. Lack of government is another cause.
- tintedfireglass 4y agowhat are you trying to imply? Climate change?
- mrpopo 4y agoYes. The current drought in China is a "1-in-150 years" event that will reoccur at least once in the next decade, and I am ready to take bets on that. This was predicted 20 years ago in the IPCC reports from back then, demonstrated in the more recent reports, and people are still freaking out and acting surprised.
- radford-neal 4y agoMissing from the article is any explanation for why the statues were above water 600 years ago, then below water most of the time, and are now above water again (at least briefly). Has there been some change in the course of the river? Was it generally drier 600 years ago? Is post-glacial rebound occurring (ie, if ice sheets existed a bit further north, pushing down land under them, and up south of them, with things now settling back down since the ice is gone)?
- qwertyuiop_ 4y agoSo climate change is a continuous process regardless of whether Buddha drove an Internal combustion engine or a lithium battery charged by a coal plant ?
- drekk 4y agoYeah I mean who cares if that changes happens over millennia, centuries, or decades? I for one welcome the yearly "once in a lifetime" disasters :)