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Climate Change Already Having Profound Impacts on Lakes in Europe


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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

 

For perspective on how climate change is affecting lakes, those of us here in the U.S. can just look across the pond, where scientists and the agencies involved in meeting the European Union’s Water Framework Directive have amassed an impressive body of research on the topic.

 

Not only are extreme weather events such as droughts and intense rainstorms becoming more common, climate warming is leading to increased algal growth and more frequent toxic algal blooms. It also affects the entire aquatic food web, including the number, size and distribution of freshwater fish species, according to the latest research.

 

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/21/climate-change-already-having-profound-impacts-on-lakes-in-europe/

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  • Location: North York Moors
  • Location: North York Moors

Nutrification has far more impact than warming.Do they even have data to show lake temperatures have increased?I very much doubt it, and in any case shallow fresh water warms and cools rapidly due to a range of factors like sun hours and wind far more than a tiny increase in air temperature.

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  • Location: Aviemore
  • Location: Aviemore

Nutrification has far more impact than warming.Do they even have data to show lake temperatures have increased?I very much doubt it, and in any case shallow fresh water warms and cools rapidly due to a range of factors like sun hours and wind far more than a tiny increase in air temperature.

 

I've edited out the usual un-needed name calling and the like from your post. But beyond that - do you have evidence for your claims as it seems to me as there's a fair amount of research gone into this and they've come to their conclusions based on that, so if you're going to say it's all wrong surely it's not unreasonable to ask you to back it up?

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