The shrinking Caspian Sea

[@darkmatter5424]

The Caspian's existence depends almost entirely on the Volga river.

[@bavondale]

I wish they would stop mentioning the climate. It is clearly overuse of the Volga river. It will meet the same destiny as the Aral sea

[@justinzago1536]

I just wrote an almost identical comment before reading yours. I completely agree!

[@mrparts]

They cannot say the truth because it’s not politically acceptable .

[@ivicaanic5213]

@@justinzago1536 Unfortunatelly climate change will make overusage of water much worse, its negative effect can not be anymore put under the carpet...it does not matter if we like it or not.

[@Eli-pj8xm]

3:27 it is funny they mentioned everything but the actual cause why the Caspian is shrinking: over extraction for agricultural and industrial use and constructing dams on the Volga.

[@justinzago1536]

Classic case of the climate alarmists taking every opportunity to exaggerate the issue!

[@EyepopTheSailorMan]

He did mention exactly that. What the heck?

[@XD-te6vj]

blaming the world on climate change for russia damming the river is just bs.

[@steven4315]

More likely, the massive diversion of water irrigation.

[@pehclark7256]

Due to Russian Volga river dams that restricted inflow into the caspian seas. Much like how the Himalyan water was hijacked for hydro electric that affected the Mekong river and the Ganges river

[@justinzago1536]

Hydroelectric does not reduce the amount of water which will ultimately reach the Caspian. After all, the water simply continues to flow once it's past the dams. Irrigation is the major culprit here, not hydroelectric. As for shifting water from one watershed to another, that's simply untrue.

[@SimhaArya-zu7vo]

"Himalayan water" Water? Glacier! how would a dam *downstream* affect its source🤦

[@BlueHen123]

Excellent report! Thank you for bringing this to attention! -From California

[@kongthai..]

Pentagon knows this, my dear. 😂

[@roberturbanczyk204]

How about making canal between azov sea and caspian sea? It would raise the level of caspian sea and bring more rains to central Asia.

[@MehraliyevFuad]

Bad idea.

[@malcolmjwebster]

There is already a shipping canal that exists between the Azoz and Caspian sea - the Volga-Don Canal and is one of the 2 that already exist!

[@roberturbanczyk204]

@@malcolmjwebster the canal you wrote about, doesnt bring water to caspian sea. It doesnt transport Black sea water to caspian sea

[@roberturbanczyk204]

@markinohio1 you are totally wrong, the salinity level in azov sea is simmilar and even lower in Taganrog bay. Without this water caspian sea will die and there is no other water resource able to stop desertification of caspian sea. It might even reduce the salinity of caspian sea becouse less water from volga would evaporate on way to caspian sea

[@KMLogKM]

Caspain sea is beautiful sea I like it I been there😅

[@jacquespollet7999]

Pourquoi ne pas parler du golfe de " Kara Bougaz " qui absorbe une grande partie des eaux de la mer Caspienne et qui est aussi une véritable raison de l'assèchement de cette mer intérieure ...on ne devrait plus alimenter en eaux ce réservoir et créer soit un barrage avec des " lancers d'eaux " ou construire tout simplement une digue ....ça pourrait être le commencement d'une solution ...!!

[@andrewst9797]

"Climate change" That's what he is paid for.

[@miningproductions319]

Loved the white car at 2:16.

[@kenneth9874]

He just had to repeat the rising sea levels fable....

[@jamiyabennett4503]

People think that the oceans are rising but they are being displaced by the massive ships and submarines

[@bryanodriscoll2123]

I believe that the Caspian has varied dramatically in size over the last thirty thousand years. From being two or three times as large as it is now to less than half its current size as the Ice Age fluctuated in intensity. What may seem an alarming change from the perspective of a human life time might not be of any real significance at all from a geological perspective.

[@leonidojr.pretencio8526]

Why are you alive 30,000 years ago. Are you sure there is 30,000 years ago.

[@Xenon-4300]

Those waves are like that of a small lake. I grew up swimming in Lake Michigan, which is still much smaller, and sometimes the waves would knock you over. I know Azerbaijan is usually fairly windy too, strange.

[@troygaspard6732]

Sign of the times.

[@anarbekabdullin3574]

Hi from KZ. Don't worry. The Caspian Sea "breathes" - the fluctuations of the Caspian sea level are a well known natural process. The Caspian Sea level raises and drops every like 10-15-20 years.

[@Kiyoone]

Yet, they are EAGER to blame it on the famous WEF agenda called "climate crisis"

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

At the rate we are going those fluctuations will stop and the Caspian will continue to recede because the climate is warming and the region is getting drier.

[@justinzago1536]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Keep drinking the Kool Aid!

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@justinzago1536 If it's koolaide that I'm drinking it is a koolaide that respects the science of climate change as opposed to the alternative which is either empty denials or some psuedoscience that misses the point entirely. After all I can back up all of the claims of climate change with online links including authorities on climate change such as James Hansen, former NASA climate scientist or Jason Box, glacier researcher. What have you got, but statements like keep drinking the koolaide?! 🙄

[@neonlight1214]

​@michaeldeierhoi4096 the rivers that feed the Caspian Sea are thousands of kilometers long. From mountains of Afghanistan to Arctic Russia. The region around the Caspian has always been dry, this didn't change. Only what changed is Russias behavior on exploiting nature for profit. Just like the Arak sea ( Major fault to Russia and Uzbekistan )😊

[@sgtpepperz25]

Russia is using the water...

[@prismgems]

Azerbaijan is a significant oil and gas producer. Their current prosperity is dependent on it.

[@noahjones3260]

U haven't found the box yet lmfao

[@donaldkasper8346]

The 30 km beach used to be under what, 1 meter of water?

[@rodriguesforbes8841]

Grow plenty of trees. Make progress in farming

[@JackWoolsey-w4d]

Coastal regions ARE NOT being inundated.

[@rainwellwisher7075]

build some how canal aur massive pipeline From black sea to Caspian sea and from sea to Aral sea problem solve decrease water levels to both seas.

[@kongthai..]

Ah! CNA got it. Caspian sea, Aral sea is important. This two seas irrigates Central Asia and Iran. The Russian Federation has the Urals and Black Sea to benefit and draws this region into it's sphere of influence. Most would have realised it. Solution, CANALS, a big power has proposed this already. 😂❤

[@kennethvenezia4400]

While of course it's not good, actually I'm surprised it's not worse😮

[@andrewst9797]

You wished it was?

[@shannonalaminski2619]

Look at the uplands where this water originates. We overgraze goats and sheep. Less green ground cover results in less water infiltration and greater wind and rain erosion of good soil. Less ground water slowly filtering through the Earth also kills wells. So dig deeper and deeper and deeper wells if you want water. Further down the watershed water is taken for mega mono agriculture (what could possibly go wrong?). Add chemicals to increase production, chemicals that leach into the watershed. Less good clean water makes it to the sea. The smaller volume of water with an accelerated level of salinity and various agricultural chemical runoff concentration will cause a die off in the flora and fauna of that sea. It will be like dominoes. It is the Aral Sea Part 2. Human control of watersheds should be replaced with beaver control of watersheds. If not, we will go extict. But maybe the Earth will be * better * without us.

[@mohdnorzaihar2632]

This is what "Gog's@Magog's" did to us😊

[@bakedscience6888]

I've been to a few beaches. That beach looks like trash

[@astrogeo1]

Just make a high capacity waterway from Georgia coast at the Black Sea over to the Caspian Sea. The running water will double as a hydro-electric power station ! Problems being solved for both global rising seas and for the receding Caspian Sea.

[@roberturbanczyk204]

Too expensive, it would be easier to bring water from azov sea becouse the water level difference is lower. Georgia should rather fix the railway, I wish to be able to travel there safe and quickly.

[@astrogeo1]

@roberturbanczyk204 Doubt that. It should of course be paid for by all coastal countries (at least) because the drowning coastal cities around the world is very costly to move. So Georgia and Aserbajdsjan should pay very little of it. Stopping green-house gases seems very difficult in practice, also not helped by the recent US elections.

[@roberturbanczyk204]

@@astrogeo1 the only way to make azov caspian canal is to make it by russian territory. The project should be supported by U.N to reduce the sea levels and sand storms. Giving central Asian countries an acces to global marrytime routes should be very profitable to all of this countries. It would reduce the cost of transport and bring wealth to all region

[@roberturbanczyk204]

@@astrogeo1 China might support the new trade route with investments if central Asian countries would cooperate with them

[@MrToradragon]

@@roberturbanczyk204 And even then you still would have hills and over 600 km in the way. the only way how to connect Caspian and Azov Sea is through Don. Well there already is canal, but not exactly suited for large sea going ships. it would require significant upgrade and also Don is some 40 metre below highest point of canal. So if it should also act as water diversion channel, you would have to dig the canal some 40+ metre deeper and also upgrade over 250 km of current waterway on Don.

[@ЧинарАлиев-ь9ъ]

Браво Джекки

[@justinzago1536]

Increased evaporation from rising temperatures??? Not likely!!! Shifting weather patterns and increased water demand on the inflows before they reach the sea are much more plausible explanations. It is documented that the neighboring Aral sea's demise was caused by poor water usage policies.

[@cavelion84]

There is plenty of water in the ocean. You will get it soon.

[@Kiyoone]

live in a coastal area for more than 30 years and it have shown NO signs of "SEA RISING" Ya'll should get the facts together because sinking/eroding soils ≠ sea rising

[@Dqtube]

The facts are simple. There is now more water in the oceans. The reasons for this are: 1) Snowfall does not deposit the amount that melts from glaciers. 2) Inland waters, such as the Caspian Sea, evaporate faster. 3) People are withdrawing more groundwater than can soak into deep aquifers. For this reason, deeper wells need to be drilled in some regions.

[@olive-ddhlovemap]

There is a TV drama in China called 'Survival of Migrant Workers', which is the real happiness situation of the Chinese people

[@rodriguesforbes8841]

Keep dredging. It's done all over. The practice should be followed on routine basis.

[@markbrinton6790]

That won't solve a single thing.

[@diva555sg]

This will not be the only sea.

[@HKim0072]

Well, it will make oil and gas exploration easier.

[@briseboy]

Aral Sea was sacrificed to cotton, with Amu and Sur Darya diverted. Caspian is a terminal lake, the "big fish overexploited by the fishermen. Where is the Volga being diverted? Do the Urals have less snow depth than past? Where I live, on the Pacific, the flat delta of the near large river, with paved roads running out to the shore, and old farms, NOW commonly inundated during seasons when rains inland the reduced pressure during ocean storms, and se level perhaps 4 inches to 6 inches higher than 20th century. It can ALL be traced to humans modifying the environment, causing both global heating - there goes the Caspian, and destruction of watercourse and estuaries, there goes the Caspian. In Norht America TWO HUGE periodic lakes appearing for decades to centuries, and disappearing at the same temporal scale, have been prevented from existing by human diversion, channeling, , along with another huge lake, which is one of three large terminal lakes in ADDITION to the two i mention as periodic. The Arabs bought land and water rights in the USA - too many Arabs exist due to too much money creating De Facto HUGE colonies in the desert- UAE, Dubai, and other enclaves that WOULD NOT EXIST were it not for international fossil fuel extraction, transport, and distant consumption. Imagine how much war, invasion, devastation, violent terrorism would be cured were this practice ONLY be ceased. NO leaks of microtech to russian weapons, to commit the atrocities of Ukraine invasion, No exorbitant oligarch money turning the world into Naziism Part 2. I have been witness to multiple bird flocks feeding, so thickly that bright large human sails could not be SEEN only 100 meters away. I have witnessed shoals of fish on coral reefs so thick that nothing could be seen other than reef and fish. This, still extant in a few regions NOT exploited by humans is globally threatened. SO ARE the 550 lb reef fish actually common and recorded in my childhood, but devastated by human taking. NOW the very tropical seas (and tropics are where MOST humans LIVE) look like ponds when measured by fish size. NO large species (over 20Kg) EVER approached humans in number. It is THIS that is the fundamental problem. Only the brains evolved to respond to habitat exceeding carrying capacity - PRECEDED by recognition of social carrying capacity, have adapted as they once did only locally, by reducing reproduction. But the amelioration will take until past 2060 to 2100 ce, in order to make the turnaround to return to submaximal populations, JUST AS THEY DO IN EVERY NATURAL ECOSYSTEM AND HABITAT LOCALE> Our lifetimes , through which we erroneously gauge time, do NOT differ in cycles from bacteria when overreproducing in a local habitat. The Part 2 Nazis, however, include the forced reproduction through control of female choice. That issue , and its cruelty, is momentary phenomenon when looked at through an only slightly longer time lens. Diversity CANNOT be impeded - when one species overreproduces and stamps out others, niches and opportunities CONTINUE. Communicable disease, IS on the rise, with old and novel microorganisms, from monkeypox and other STDs to incessantly emerging viruses, and even increased incidence of infectious misfolded proteins, taking the place of insufficiently controlled human populations.We believe that we extinguish predators from our arrogated habitat[s], while others, however small arise. Predators are ESSENTIAL to living habitats and ecosystems. Humans are nothing more than mid-trophic level omnivores, who cannot even eat teh carrion they cause. Neither are you Elon Musks with delusions of escaping to simple nonviable colonies on some other planet.

[@MrToradragon]

For agriculture along the course, of Volga and the region is not as dry as some parts of the USA, but there is system of large reservoirs on the Volga and the evaporation had led to reduction in flow of Volga which then leads to reduced surface area of Caspian Sea. But that is happening, with some variations of water level for almost a century. But it should be said that there were also proposals for some diversion of water that flows towards Artic to Volga basin, so the loss would be compensated, but the required dams, canals and pumping stations were perhaps never build or never finished. I have found article in Washington Post from 1984 where some description of proposal is given, but it perhaps never left planning stage.

[@rahuldeshpande4938]

When two bloodthirsty countries (Russia and Iran) are bordering the Caspian Sea, the future is already doomed.

[@raphaelnyame3892]

The direct opposite of keta

[@Teacher2Polis2XtraRice]

Not a surprised. Nothing is permanent.😂

[@shahnawarkhan266]

Being not a fresh water sea, the Caspian sea can easily be recharged from the Mediterranean sea.

[@rasputindasilva858]

Nonesense, it would be the end of Caspien ecosystem... anyway it is doomed it's a matter of time, we humans are here to be sure the planet is destroyed.

[@justinzago1536]

It is a brackish water body. The salinity is much less than that of sea water. And let's not forget about the massive amount of energy it would take to pump trillions of gallons of water over the height of land and over such a great distance. Simple answers are never simple or most importantly, realistic.

[@shahnawarkhan266]

@justinzago1536 💖

[@SuperMika70]

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[@dailyworldnews2925]

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[@vinaykumar-ld3yi]

The bigger issue is the salt entering the land. When rivers don't end up in seas , salt water wil penetrate into the land causing huge postal damage to the country. Azerbaijan should decrease population, else people will suffer of hunger

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Where is that salt coming from? The Caspian is an inland fresh water lake!

[@eslnoob191]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 The Caspian Sea is a giant saltwater lake. It used to be connected to the global ocean but was cut off due to plate tectonics.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@eslnoob191 Yep my mistake. Curiously though the salinity is only one third that of the ocean despite no connection to the ocean. I'm surprised that evaporation over the millennia hasn't made it more saline.

[@starcrib]

Those people are frightening.

[@andrewst9797]

Why?

[@milexiangyangli5666]

😯😯😯😯😯

[@LonganLee]

Why not use this to introduce more tax citing climate change?

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Why not educate yourself about climate change instead of burying your head in the sand??