Not long ago, I was contacted by an environmentalist about an issue at the Salton Sea.
I was told that the Salton Sea Level had gone down 3.
5 feet in 1 1/2 weeks, also that the State Park rangers say this has never happened before that they know of in recent history.
I thought you should know.
She made it sound like there were grave concerns, almost as if something very geologically unique was occurring, an anomaly of some type.
You see, she had contacted our Think Tank.
And I worried about underground reservoirs filling up and putting water against hot rock below, causing a fracking type sensation, perhaps triggering smaller faults, which all connect to larger ones, remember the San Andreas earthquake fault runs through that area, geologists say due to its length it could someday have an 8.
5 or greater quake.
Hollywood disaster movies have featured this fault causing part of California to fall into the sea.
Further, some say it's not a matter of if, but when - and that we are overdue for such a quake.
As the coordinator for a think tank, I began contacting my geologist researcher contacts to relay the story and then go online to read some of the papers.
Interestingly enough, I found something else, namely that there is a certain Democrat politician who is trying to get a $5 Billion water bond floated to ensure that the Salton Sea gets water shipments from the already stressed our Colorado River system.
If not the Salton Sea could dry up and cause terribly unhealthy dusty sand to cover the area - this would cause huge future health risks as has been found in the Mono Lake, dried up now, area.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal the same day this environmentalist had called me, and she said she was worried about the rapid decline of the lake in the last week.
Okay so, let's say that she is serious and the issue she explains has nothing to do with the long-term challenges.
Well, in that case, not many people are going to believe the environmentalists, if they are continually trying to cook up a storm on this issue to get a flood of money from a $5 Billion bond.
Meanwhile, the new congressman is trying to make a name for himself, and incidentally already has the eye of the top Democrat Party leadership in the US for future higher office, and yes, he did go to Harvard.
What we seem to have is a set up here to get the media to bite, but what if this situation was real, what if there were signs of a future 8.
0 plus earthquake, and what if no one listened because they just thought that the environmentalist groups were just trying to stoke the fires of the media again to help them do their bidding? Please consider all this and think on it.