evaporating

Less of the Sun's energy has been used in evaporating moisture leaving more to heat the ground and the air.

Since 2018, the Salton Sea no longer gets an inflow of fresh water, only agricultural runoff, so it is evaporating and shrinking while the exposed, dry lake bed area is expanding, feeding clouds of particulate.

Once in the oceans, of course, groundwater will never again be suitable for drinking and human use without expensive and energy-sucking treatment or through the natural cycle of evaporating and precipitating as rain.

Some of the Sun's energy is used in evaporating this moisture which leaves less to heat the land and the air, limiting the temperature rise.

As we watched the German detectives packing away it felt like the spring of hope of a resolution that had bubbled up in June 2020 was evaporating in the thankless heat.