Year: 2008

World’s largest lake warming rapidly: scientists
Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:46pm EDT  By Timothy Gardner

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Siberia’s Lake Baikal has warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, which could put animals unique to the world’s largest lake in jeopardy, U.S. and Russian scientists said.

The lake has warmed 1.21 degrees Celsius (2.18 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1946 due to climate change, almost three times faster than global air temperatures, according to a paper by the scientists to be published next month in the journal “Global Change Biology.”

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Excerpts from George M. Woodwell’s “The Energy Cycle of the
Biosphere,” Scientific American, September 1970.

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“It is solar energy that moves the rabbit, the deer, the whale, the
boy on the bicycle outside my window, my pencil as I write these
words.”

“Only about a tenth of 1 percent of the energy received from the sun
by the earth is fixed by photosynthesis ….  about the equivalent to
the annual production of between 150 and 200 billion tons of dry
organic matter and includes both food for man and the energy that
runs the life support systems of the biosphere, namely the earth’s
major ecosystems : the forests, grasslands, oceans, marshes,
estuaries, lakes, rivers, tundras, and deserts.

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Those of you who still try to contend with
debunkers will have noticed that they say that
weather is hard to predict beyond the next few
days, so we sure can’t trust predictions for the
next few decades or centuries.

The two letters, below, published by Nature in
2007, will give you something to work with.
Lance

  NATURE
  Vol 448
  30 August 2007

  CORRESPONDENCE

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