Largest by volume. Superior is largest by surface area.
“This lake was expected to be among those most resistant to climate change, due to its tremendous volume and unique water circulation.”
LOL! That was good. New and improved! Climate Change resistant!
The Russians have a history of making large lakes dissappear. Disliquidated,I would say.
Of course it does. So does global cooling. So do local climate changes. None of which can scientifically or signficantly be pinned on humans.
LOL Scientists who claim to have a consensus about global warming don’t seem to be able to come to a consensus about what is occuring right now. I read an article yesterday that said scientists (apparently just some scientists) think that global warming is going to ‘stall’ until 2015.
Oops, guess I shouldn’t have poured that cup of hot Starbucks in the lake last week.
This only proves that global warming started well before man started emitting C02 in large quantities.
I wonder if these are “end point” measures. That is, compare 1946 to 2006 and measure the difference. If so, single-point statistics are notoriously weak in trend analysis yet people “on a mission” do it all the time.
Total BS. There was no serious consistent scientific study of the lake over that period. 60 years covers the aftermath of WW2 and the Cold War. That claim is pure BS. If they are willing to simply lie about this fact, what else are they lying about in their "Study"
Bureaucratic Institutions, like people and objects, develop inertia. This is an example of a bureaucracy being captured by their dogma and simply refusing to see anything that does not validate the preconceived template.
Science Daily ought to change it’s name to Climate Change Crisis Daily. It’s turned into a real rag.
"Warming of this isolated but enormous lake is a clear signal that climate change has affected even the most remote corners of our planet," Hampton said.
Another Gore Kool-aid drinker. It's due to worldwide global warming? What about any industrial discharges into the lake during Communist rule?? And the rest of the world has warmed in the past 40-60 years so this would be expected. Now as global cooling occurs (as per the scientists who recognize this is a cyclic event) can we expect the Gore addicts to recognize this as a natural event?? Not on your life!!
I remember studying about Lake Baikal in high school and everyone was wringing their hands about how the Soviets were killing the lake with all kinds of toxins. So, I guess that problem has run its course and now it’s global warming.
"Thanks to the dedication of local scientists, who were also keen observers, coupled with modern synthetic approaches, we can now visualize and appreciate the far-reaching changes occurring in this lake."
As the earth warms, “modern synthetic approaches” melts into enviroscript for “invented facts.”
Interestingly, this linguistic visualization also happens as the earth cools, which further validates global warming.
Scientists ought to get together every once in while to compare notes.
Global warming on hold
The lake has only one major inlet and one major outlet to carry most of its water. The inlet is the heavily-polluted Selenga River which flows in from northern Mongolia. It brings in almost one-half of Baikal's water.
or this:
Lake Baikal resides on one of the two deepest land depressions on Earth. (The other is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific.) The rift is over nine kilometers in depth. Little is understood about this huge fault zone. Hydrothermic vents below the surface cause heavy tectonic activity, with the result of minor earthquakes every few hours. Three large plates meet in this rift, which seven-kilometer-deep sediment shows to be more than 25 million years old.
or this:
Plans for the paper mill at Baikalsk began in 1954. The public was informed in 1957; protests were held, and ignored. The plant was built on the belief that heating Baikal's mineral-free waters, then spraying them over the pulp of the Siberian pines, would produce a "super" cellulose that could be used to make durable jet tires for Soviet Air Force planes. This was done during the Cold War under Nikita Khrushchev on the intelligence report that the U.S. was using the same procedure in Foley, Florida.(4) (In time, synthetics were found to be more conducive to tire manufacture.) The plant, however, continues to produce, polluting 200 square kilometers of the lake. This pollution affects the bottom-dwellers of the lake as well, for Lake Baikal's waters are thoroughly mixed, with oxygen found even at the lowest depths. In addition, the Angara carries some of this pollution westward.
It must be global warming. There can be no other possible explanation for the rise in temperature.
I’d like to know the error bars on that temperature increse figure.
“Increases in water temperature (1.21°C since 1946), chlorophyll a (300 percent since 1979), and an influential group of zooplankton grazers (335 percent since 1946) have important implications for nutrient cycling and food web dynamics.”
1) Hmm, more fish food. GLOBAL WARMING IS GOOD FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE!
2) Most of the warming has been in northern land masses, ie Siberia. Is it surprising that this siberian lake is 1.2C warmer than 60 years ago??
3) All they’ve done is confirm that the lake follows local climate trends. Is the halt in global warming since 1998 relfected too?
The really scary part is, in this lake’s 25 million year history, this is the first time it’s temperature has changed at all. Which means, of course, that we are all going to die.