Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Lakes are heating up

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_sc/us_sci_warming_lakes;_ylt=Ao4WkDDsXCy1RrBBC_wqQwus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFldWdjN2NiBHBvcwMxMTEEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawN3b3JsZHNsYWtlc2c-

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Tue Nov 23, 6:36 pm ET

WASHINGTON – A first-of-its-kind NASA study is finding nice cool lakes are heating up — even faster than air.

Two NASA scientists used satellite data to look at 104 large inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) since 1985. That's about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures in the same time period.

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