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44% of the world’s lakes are expanding

More than half of the world’s lakes have shrunk in past 30 years, study finds

Fun how you can describe things, isn’t it?

Fangfang Yao, a surface hydrologist at the University of Virginia who led the study published on Thursday in the journal Science, said 56% of the decline in natural lakes

You a lake half full or a lake half empty sort of person?

5 thoughts on “44% of the world’s lakes are expanding”

  1. Water levels rose in a quarter of the lakes, often as a result of dam construction in remote areas such as the Inner Tibetan Plateau.

    The Soviets dammed up the rivers that fed the Aral Sea and it is now just the Aral Puddle.

  2. You a lake half full or a lake half empty sort of person?
    Neither of them are particularly meaningful. Lakes don’t generally have particular levels. They’re a balance between inflows, outflows, evaporation etc. So will vary depending on when you measure them. Have there been bods constantly checking levels in all lakes at all seasons worldwide. Given the dosh floating round available to “climate science”, it wouldn’t be surprising. But you might get the results guarantee the cash.

  3. Ducky McDuckface

    I’m a “you’re using the wrong size lake” kinda person.

    Thanks for asking, though.

  4. The Soviets dammed up the rivers that fed the Aral Sea and it is now just the Aral Puddle.

    It’s not so much that they were dammed, they were completely diverted to (very inefficiently) irrigate desert. So water that used to sit in a large endorheic basin and slowly evaporate was then able to evaporate all at once over a large area. Instead of residing in the Aral buffer, a lot of the water will now land straight in the oceans. Which, mysteriously, have risen slightly.

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