Posted on 01/12/2018 9:16:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
To scientists who study lakes and rivers, it seems humans have embarked on a huge unplanned experiment.
By burning fossil fuels, we have already raised the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 40 percent, and we’re on track to increase it by much more. Some of that gas may mix into the world’s inland waters, and recent studies hint that this may have profound effects on the species that live in them.
“We’re monkeying with the very chemical foundation of these ecosystems,” said Emily H. Stanley, a limnologist (freshwater ecologist) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison. “But right now we don’t know enough yet to know where we’re going. To me, scientifically that’s really interesting, and as a human a little bit frightening.”
In decades to come, as carbon dioxide levels continue to climb in the atmosphere, Dr. Stanley speculated, the picture will only get more nuanced.
“I honestly don’t know where we’re going,” said Dr. Stanley. “I’ll probably put my money on increased variability from lake to lake. They’re just going to be more extreme.”
Dr. Weiss agreed that it wasn’t possible to draw big lessons from the preliminary data. “I think this study we’re publishing is like a door-opener,” she said. “I hope there will be other scientists who will follow.”
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One good volcanic blowoff could give us as much acidity as many years of anthropogenic CO2.
“Don’t know enough”
“Speculated”
“Could”
“May”
“Possible”
NEXT!
I was starting to worry. Previously you posted a climate propaganda piece (the 12 year old whining about the rain) without posting the usual Dear Leader of Propaganda picture. I didn’t like it at all!
The more conflicts....the more grants to prove they conflict.
Climate Change Is Altering Lakes and Streams
oh...Horse Manure!!!
Grade”A” BS!
Climate Change made my doggie whiz on the kitchen floor
theres Ice outside right now, she don like ice.
Climate change is making a sh*thole out of almost every country.
Who paid for the studies?
Blah, blah, blah, blah ...
This hasn’t occurred in something like 4 billion years I think.
The Mighty Mississippi has forever been changing it’s course.
Thanks,
I will let my lakes and streams know.
“”””Climate Change Is Altering Lakes and Streams, Study Suggests””””””””””””
I totally agree with that. I live near a lake. This summer there were boats all over it and people were swimming and fishing and stuff.
Now that the climate has changed, the lake is all stiff and white. No boats, no swimmers, nothing. Just a bunch of people out on it cutting holes in it to see what is down below.
Has anyone done a study yet on the effect of taxpayer money has on the subject matter & results of scientific studies?
[Climate change is making a sh*thole out of almost every country.]
LOL. I love you guys.
“Sh**hole” will be a household word before the week is out.
Ah, the classic “wiggle room” word - “Suggests.”
LOL, that ship has already sailed.
Like to whom, chump
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