Posted on 11/26/2010 1:52:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The world's largest lakes, including Lake Tahoe, have been warming rapidly for 25 years as the global climate changes, NASA scientists report.
And throughout the Northern Hemisphere, surface water temperatures of many lakes have been rising even faster than the warming air above them, according to observations by ultra-sensitive satellites.
In a report just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Philipp Schneider and Simon Hook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena say the warming rate of all the major lakes observed by the satellites has averaged nearly a full degree Fahrenheit per decade. For some lakes in the Northern Hemisphere, the average increases reached nearly two degrees Fahrenheit per decade, they said.
"This is just one of several lines of evidence that global warming is really taking place," Hook said. "The evidence is striking and worldwide."
A geologist who designs high-resolution, Earth-observing instruments for satellites, Hook frequently measures surface temperatures at Lake Tahoe directly in order to validate the accuracy of the satellite observations.
The warming trend there has been particularly striking, indicating that the lake's surface temperature has often risen twice as fast as the air temperatures above it, he said.
Geoffrey Schladow, director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at UC Davis, is familiar with the report on global temperatures. Tahoe has long been a bellwether for understanding the effects of warming lakes generally, he said.
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Follow the money.
These guys are relentless - they’ve learned their lesson well about the Big Lie.
As Lake Tahoe was formed as a result of vulcanism, I would be looking beneath the lake for the source of a temperature increase first. It is in a block fault formed by Mount Pluto. Though it is considered exstinct, is it really?
Good news! The water in Lake Tahoe is too damned cold to start with.
We need more air pollution to block to suns thermal energy!
I would suggest they look down for their answer, not up...
GMTA, I was thinking the same thing.
Despite the fact, the fact, that Tahoe recorded it’s largest ever snowfall this week?
Sure. That's why Lake Erie froze over solid last year for the first time in maybe a decade. F*ing NASA is a waste of skin, money, and oxygen. They should just go back to playing Space Cadets.
Oooooh I’d love to see them take a dip in Lake Superior right now.
Bingo! NASA are a joke now. Libs infiltrated and the Germans passed away.
Von Braun was a clever chap. He got jerked around by the US. He then went to Walt Disney to get America excited about space. without him and his team - there would never have been a NASA.
There could also be a not so dormant volcano under Tahoe.
Don’t you know? Global warming causes global cooling :) Oh wait, if global warming causes global cooling?!?!?!? Wouldn’t they cancel each other out???
“Satellite” is the new “computer”. If a “satellite” says it, IT MUST BE TWUE!! I wonder if any of these jerkwagons ever thought of going out in a boat and just dropping a thermometer in the lake. We all remember those thousands of miles of ice that some dumbass “satellite” forgot to find up on the North Pole. A lot of “scientists” needed to be put on suicide watch because of that dumbass “satellite’s” dumbass readings. LOL!!! Technology is only as good as the morons and pinheads using it. If they are incompetent or have an agenda, “satellite” readings are worthless.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps/news/offbeat/spanish-woman-claims-she-now-owns-sun-dpgonc-20101126-gc_10808147
Maybe. How would I know?
I’m not “a scientist”.
The mountains around Tahoe just got 9 feet of snow.
vulcanism
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