Small Lakes Keep Growing Across The Planet, And It's a Serious Problem

https://www.sciencealert.com/ ^ | 05 December 2022 | ByDAVID NIELD

[RomanSoldier19]

A new study has revealed that small lakes on Earth have expanded considerably over the last four decades – a worrying development, considering the amount of greenhouse gases freshwater reservoirs emit.

Between 1984 and 2019, global lake surfaces increased in size by more than 46,000 square kilometers (17,761 square miles), researchers say. That's slightly more than the area covered by Denmark.

Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other gasses are constantly produced from lakes, because of the bacteria and fungi feeding at the bottom of the water, snacking on dead plants and animals that have drifted down to the lake floor.

In total, this lake spread equates to an annual increase of carbon emissions in the region of 4.8 teragrams (or trillion grams) of CO2 – which to continue the country comparisons equals the increase in CO2 emitted by the whole of the UK in 2012.

"There have been major and rapid changes with lakes in recent decades that affect greenhouse gas accounts, as well as ecosystems and access to water resources," says terrestrial ecologist Jing Tang, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

[SaveFerris]

And it’s working on the weak-minded

[FreedomPoster]

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[Scott from the Left Coast]

Well, Lskes Mead and Powell are Really Big lakes, and they’re shrinking a lot.

Guess it’s all in balance.

[VideoDoctor]

A few years ago we were bombarded with stories how lakes were drying up because of global warming.

Well.. now it appears they've REVERSED the story to see if that might work.

[VideoDoctor]

Onward comrades...

A box of FINE Havana Cigars for that post #14 Doughty.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Wow, so now water is racist!

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)

[metmom]

God forbid that more fresh water be available for people to benefit from.

We can’t have any of that hoi polloi being prosperous stuff like that going on.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks.

That may be all we have to eat before they are done.

[2nd Amendment]

Don’t joke about dihydrogen monoxide! Many people have died from it! In fact we need a new cabinet position to monitor it!

[Dr. Franklin]

We must ban water to save da Erf!!!

Funny how Jake from State Farm got changed from being white to black, and all of the commercials have mixes race couples and kids today. Yet, when the elites wanted to push climate change as a crisis, they selected a white girl to market that campaign. Isn't that odd?

[SaveFerris]

lots of weird agendas - who knows what will be pushed next?

[GOPJ]

Rivers too. Whatever these idiots think will help them sell their BS

[EinNYC]

“We” will not let you get away with this? Whatcha gonna do, honey? Throw another tantrum? When I want an opinion about anything, I think getting it from an autistic, uneducated teenager raised by rabid libtards would be about last on my list.

[SaveFerris]

Greta gonna throw down!!

[Enterprise]

LOL!! And their daughter is Mai Poon Tang.

[clearcarbon]

"They got rid of the indian but kept the lake. It should have been the other way around."

She's still there. The water level rose.

[Combat_Liberalism]

Gretta gonna throw up!

[Flick Lives]

a worrying development, considering the amount of greenhouse gases freshwater reservoirs emit.

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Water bad.