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Small Lakes Keep Growing Across The Planet, And It's a Serious Problem
https://www.sciencealert.com/ ^ | 05 December 2022 | ByDAVID NIELD

Posted on 12/04/2022 9:45:30 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


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

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1 posted on 12/04/2022 9:45:30 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Tell that to Las Vegas and lake Meade


2 posted on 12/04/2022 9:48:18 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Deadly increases in dihydrogen monoxide alert!!!!


3 posted on 12/04/2022 9:49:22 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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


4 posted on 12/04/2022 9:50:25 PM PST by Red6
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To: RomanSoldier19

Ok.


5 posted on 12/04/2022 9:50:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: RomanSoldier19

Water. Food. Cattle. People.

Quick, do away with these things... /s


6 posted on 12/04/2022 9:51:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

you got it


7 posted on 12/04/2022 9:53:12 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: RomanSoldier19
And if small lakes do that much damage, just imagine what the Great Lakes do. Turn up Niagara Falls to full power! Drain them now!
8 posted on 12/04/2022 9:53:31 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: rktman

if i wear a mask will it help


9 posted on 12/04/2022 9:53:37 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: Red6

they laugh at us


10 posted on 12/04/2022 9:53:52 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: RomanSoldier19

That guy was actually Thomas Dolby’s father, who was a scientist.


11 posted on 12/04/2022 9:54:23 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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Did they offset it by all the lakes that drain into sinkholes?
12 posted on 12/04/2022 9:54:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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We must ban water to save da Erf!!!






13 posted on 12/04/2022 9:55:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red6

In the 70s the scientists said we were in for another ice-age.

That wasn’t paying off, so they switched it to global
warming.

When that didn’t work, they switched it to climate change.

Now they are going after “unwanted” water, food, cattle, and
ultimately people.

If it’s the right 7.5 billion people who die, it isn’t
all that bad.

Onward comrades...


14 posted on 12/04/2022 9:55:30 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: NWFree

More lakes. More ducks. More quacks bitchin’ about it. Next they will be complaining there is too many trees and not enough carbon in the atmosphere.


15 posted on 12/04/2022 9:56:01 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: RomanSoldier19

So when can we expect the EPA to reverse course and now require property owners to get rid of bodies of water, instead of protecting them?


16 posted on 12/04/2022 9:57:33 PM PST by Reno89519 (I do not support Trump 2024, but if he does become candidate, I will vote for him.)
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To: SaveFerris

So why are we listening to an autistic girl?


17 posted on 12/04/2022 9:57:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: RomanSoldier19

Cow farts, now lakes.

These people need to be put out of their misery.


18 posted on 12/04/2022 9:58:20 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SaveFerris

Nope this girl has stolen my tictok dreams and infested my mental memes. Facebook, please ban me for life!


19 posted on 12/04/2022 9:59:03 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SaveFerris

20 posted on 12/04/2022 9:59:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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