Posted on 08/23/2017 7:05:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lakes have been heating up around the world. Protecting streams, reducing pollution and creating sanctuaries for sensitive species could go a long way toward making lakes more resilient to climate change.
With wisps of morning fog drifting across the surface of the Irrsee, ecologist Harald Ficker lowers a thermometer into the deep blue water to measure the Earth's global warming fever. Since the 1970s, the water has warmed about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) - twice as fast as the global average.
Although that may be nice for early-season visitors to the popular swimming lake near Salzburg, it's not so good for fish. Global warming has been disrupting ecosystems here, and in lakes around the world. As temperatures continue to rise, that will affect fisheries, water supplies, farming, recreation and energy production - prompting scientists to consider how to make lakes more resilient to climate change.
Lakes are anticipated to warm another 1 degree Celsius by 2050, and a total of 4 to 5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
Without big cuts greenhouse gas emissions, this amounts to an increase that would leave lakes unrecognizable.
If the goals of the Paris climate agreement are met, that warming could be limited to 2 to 3 degrees Celsius - which still leaves room for some adaptation.
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Stupid people Lake Michigan is up four feet from it’s previous low.
The Germans have bought into this line of crap? Easy enough to believe once you consider that in the past century they bought into the belief that Jews were the source of all their financial woes, and there was little if any reason to make that association.
Just as there is little if any reason to believe that global warming is due to the influence of humanity alone.
If at all.
Why would warm temperatures endanger the lake’s fish? Lake Victoria, which sits in the middle of tropical Africa, where it never even gets cold, is full of fish.
Water vapor is the major cause of global warming. We need to drain those lakes before they destroy the earth.
Climate Change is the new Jew.
The Germans should be more worried about saving their country from muslims.
CO2 is an imaginary threat.
Islam is a very real threat.
IF the world is heating up the lakes will too.
How about throwing stocking the lakes with sharks and throwing liberals in?
These clowns, who can’t really tell us with certainty what the weather will be a weeek from now; have the gall, the chutzpah, the CRUST (good old York County PA Dutchman word) to DECREE what the weather will be 25 years from now! Why are they not LAUGHED at and scorned into obscurity?!
The better question is, “Can we save our country from these braindead libtard morons?”
As long as the sun shines, we are doomed - doomed I tell ya!
“...Why are they not LAUGHED at...”
They are...By sane people....
Yeah. Since the end of the last Ice Age!
Lake Ontario just receded from record highs earlier this week. The lakes aren’t going anywhere.
Yes, but fighting REAL threats costs money. Fighting imaginary threats makes politicians very rich.
Warbing Al Gore and the Greenies are SCREECHING again
Pretty sure my lake will have 4 feet of ice on it, in about 5 months. Wish it would warm up a degree. Morons!
“:The Germans have bought into this line of crap?”
They would swallow a bratwurst whole even when they can see the hook, line, rod and reel, and fisherman.Dumbkopfs.
#12 If everyone would raise their thumb up to block the Sun for several minutes we could lower the temperature enough to save the world!
If I were a “scientist” I could get grant money for that idea.
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