We’ve only been here a few hundred years. Lake superior is 10 000 years old and the last warming event happened 1100 years ago, where temps matched or exceeded the 1900-2010 period. No one was here recording the nature of lake superior during the medieval warming period. The temperature ranges were similar enough that its quite likely this bloom happened then.
Un-necessary hyperbole just undermines the message.
And frankly, unnecessary hyperbole is the conversations MO. It’s a fucking rag. And it’s not a source for science or technology stories. It’s all op-eds all the way down.
LOL at op blocking me for calling out the crappy headline and questionable source.
hateallhate on
Better raise the carbon tax. Yikes
Noob1cl3 on
Define normal over the course of millions of years of change?
bulkoin on
It’s too late to turn back now. We need to prepare for a new era.
Spruce223 on
Lol
gardiandhobbes on
First time in history…..more like first time since humans started tracking it. History is more than a hundred years old!
Abbadoobis on
Lol yeah “climate change” riiiiiight. Chemicals from agriculture have nothing to do with it.
Possible-Champion222 on
Ontario sewer pipes causing algae bloom
VizzleG on
The article doesn’t get into any form of analysis of about the contribution of temperature vs. nutrients that lead to algal growth.
Spoiler alert.
Algal blooms in superior are 2% due to increases in surface temperature (which has only gone up 2-3C in decades) and it’s 98% due to the massive increases in nutrient loading (agricultural runoff) that’s NOT being managed properly.
There are many many articles behind the relative effects of temperature vs. Nutrients on algal growth.
Dumb article. Pay your carbon taxes and feel good, people!
fertlizer causes algal blooms, not climate change.
FutureCrankHead on
Lot of climate scientists in this thread. It’s good to know we have all the experts weighing in here.
syrupmania5 on
Quick, we need more people from low carbon areas to commute down town every day!
mightocondreas on
When I was a kid we fixed a damaged ozone layer, this lake on earth should be a piece of cake
bry2k200 on
Lol
monkeytitsalfrado on
It is not climate change causing it, it’s increased runoff of fertilizers from farm land. This has been happening on the west side of lake Erie forever and they’ve known for decades that it’s from the farm runoff.
spasers on
Damn, a lot of arm chair climate experts in the comments who also thing climate change isn’t real and the earth has been the same flat thing for 6000 years lmao
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Why is every thing out of norm climate change.
For the first time in our *recorded* history.
We’ve only been here a few hundred years. Lake superior is 10 000 years old and the last warming event happened 1100 years ago, where temps matched or exceeded the 1900-2010 period. No one was here recording the nature of lake superior during the medieval warming period. The temperature ranges were similar enough that its quite likely this bloom happened then.
Un-necessary hyperbole just undermines the message.
And frankly, unnecessary hyperbole is the conversations MO. It’s a fucking rag. And it’s not a source for science or technology stories. It’s all op-eds all the way down.
LOL at op blocking me for calling out the crappy headline and questionable source.
Better raise the carbon tax. Yikes
Define normal over the course of millions of years of change?
It’s too late to turn back now. We need to prepare for a new era.
Lol
First time in history…..more like first time since humans started tracking it. History is more than a hundred years old!
Lol yeah “climate change” riiiiiight. Chemicals from agriculture have nothing to do with it.
Ontario sewer pipes causing algae bloom
The article doesn’t get into any form of analysis of about the contribution of temperature vs. nutrients that lead to algal growth.
Spoiler alert.
Algal blooms in superior are 2% due to increases in surface temperature (which has only gone up 2-3C in decades) and it’s 98% due to the massive increases in nutrient loading (agricultural runoff) that’s NOT being managed properly.
There are many many articles behind the relative effects of temperature vs. Nutrients on algal growth.
Dumb article. Pay your carbon taxes and feel good, people!
Example.
https://jesc.ac.cn/ch/reader/download_pdf_file.aspx?journal_id=jesc_cn&file_name=3618E016C89268ECD8B37F5D021E3E813EFD6D44032F055855AACEA5E8A61BD906575EFDB3398082462C8F5C7102053382334F5A204AA1A6&open_type=self&file_no=2011230207
fertlizer causes algal blooms, not climate change.
Lot of climate scientists in this thread. It’s good to know we have all the experts weighing in here.
Quick, we need more people from low carbon areas to commute down town every day!
When I was a kid we fixed a damaged ozone layer, this lake on earth should be a piece of cake
Lol
It is not climate change causing it, it’s increased runoff of fertilizers from farm land. This has been happening on the west side of lake Erie forever and they’ve known for decades that it’s from the farm runoff.
Damn, a lot of arm chair climate experts in the comments who also thing climate change isn’t real and the earth has been the same flat thing for 6000 years lmao