Salton Sea: Is Time correct in blaming CO2 for the latest fluctuation in "a cycle that repeated itself countless times over hundreds of thousands of years – most recently when the lake was recreated in 1905"?

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[Caption] The Salton Sea area of California's Imperial Valley was once a thriving tourist destination, but it deteriorated and dried up from the effects of global warming

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the Salton Sink or Salton Basin has long been alternately a fresh water lake and a dry desert basin, depending on random river flows and the balance between inflow and evaporative loss. A lake would exist only when it was replenished by the river and rainfall, a cycle that repeated itself countless times over hundreds of thousands of years – most recently when the lake was recreated in 1905