holy fuuck, it's getting hot!

[Weirdy]

CLICK MEH!

125 Large Northern Lakes Disappear

 

Fri Jun 3, 3:25 PM ET

 

A new study finds 125 large lakes in the Arctic have vanished as temperatures rose over the past two decades. Many other lakes have shrunk.

 

The lakes once sat atop permanently frozen soil called permafrost. Other studies have shown permafrost is melting around the world, causing low-lying ground to slump and rock to fall from mountains.

 

"We think that climate warming is thawing the permafrost," said lead researcher Laurence Smith of the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's like pulling the plug out of a bathtub. There's nothing to prevent lake water from percolating through the soil to aquifers below."

 

Changes seem to come abruptly.

 

"From what we can tell from space, a lake is either just fine or it's gone," Smith said.

 

The sudden draining could alter entire continental ecosystems, affecting birds and other wildlife that depend on the waterways, Smith and his colleagues say. Migratory birds count on the lakes during summer to feed their young.

 

The research is reported today in the journal Science.

 

Thousands of ponds, lakes and wetlands dot the north during summer.

 

"The loss of these lakes would be an ecological disaster," Smith said.

 

The researchers tracked changes across a broad swath of Siberia by comparing satellite imagery from 1972 to views from the late 1990s.

 

Past research suggested that global warming would increase the amount of summer ice melt, and so there would be more lakes. Indeed, in the most northern parts of the study area, where permafrost remains, that's true, the new survey found. But overall, the surface area of lakes in the entire study area declined by 6 percent.

 

"We were totally surprised by our findings," Smith said. "We were expecting the lake area to have grown with climate change."

 

As temperatures in the region continue to rise, as many experts predict, Smith expects lakes farther north to vanish, too.

 

The study was funded by the

National Science Foundation.

[Aoshi]

if there so worried they should put GIANT AIR CONDITIONS IN THE ARTIC to keep everything cool

 

 

damn well its only those places for now but when is it expected to threaten major cities and populated areas???

[Robert]

It's the middle of winter here, and we are getting very warm cloudless days, with absolutely no rain in sight. It only gets cold at night.

[Gryph]

Damn, that's terrible. And some people still wonder if there is really global warming. But hey, atleast that will delay or even stop another Ice Age which is also extremely bad for humans.

[ken_cinder]

Thats the thing, the Global Warming issue doesn't really show it's effects in areas largely populated by humans. It occurs in the outer regions, and once it does get bad enough it will affect us very quickly because of what happens to those regions.

Here where I live (In Canada) it's not all too prevalent, but you can tell because the summers are getting warmer and the winters we just aren't seeing the snow and cold we used to. It rained twice in December last year!

[Wizard]

It rained twice in December last year!

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Crazy. It snowed here, but barely. A few inches at best.

 

Damn, that's terrible. And some people still wonder if there is really global warming. But hey, atleast that will delay or even stop another Ice Age which is also extremely bad for humans.

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ICE AGE COMING ICE AGE COMING LEMME HEAR BOTH SIDES LEMME HEAR BOTH SIDES ICE AGE ICE AGR THROW EM IN THE FIRE THROW EM IN THE FIRE THROW EM IN WE'RE NOT SCAREMONGERING

 

/radiohead

 

Just had too.

[Ryuken]

what if what happended in The day after tomorrow comes true?? that'll be scary, i hope it doesn't happen during my life time or at least they find a way to fix all this crazy stuff that's going. perhaps we should move to mars?? hehe

[Weirdy]

if there so worried they should put GIANT AIR CONDITIONS IN THE ARTIC to keep everything cool

 

 

damn well its only those places for now but when is it expected to threaten major cities and populated areas???

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with AC's, they sucked in air, compress it to make it cooler, and goes into your house, while hot air goes out, so it really wouldn't make a difference

[Lucandrake]

Were so screwed , It's been raining like a mofo here in florida this past few weeks.

[ken_cinder]

It is 35 degrees Celcius (95 Fahrenheit) here right now.........something that is not normal for the beginning of June where I live. And it's VERY humid, humidity is 55%.

Damn glad I have central air.

[OverlordMondo]

My toilet water evaporated. Is that normal?