Rivera said the incident was evidence of the effects of global warming.

It sounds more like evidence of the effects of gravity, but I'm not a scientist.

Do you think they could find my husband's watch? It's been missing since October.

kthxbye

Sort of off topic, but does anyone else see the dancing green alien ad about mortgage rates on this page? I sure do.

Wtf, I thought this was a big deal because they ruled a crack out! stupid scientists, not knowing why a lake disappeared immediately..

Bedside table, next to the little kangaroo

From the article, global warming causes cracks in lakes and drains it away.

/I learned something today
//not really

That's pretty cool, a pile of icebergs just sitting around.

The Shadow was thirsty.

Wow, so when ancient Lake Missoula repeatedly "disappeared" due to the same exact cause during the Ice Ages, that must have been caused by Global Warming too, right?

The damn lake disappeared because the damn ice dam broke....


Best I could do,sorry....

Scientists noticed it had disappeared during a routine patrol of the area in May.

Scientists in Chile perform military maneuvers? What a country!

The Other? I was going to have something similar but your's is better

JVL? *golf clap* for referencing some really interesting stuff; saw the NOVA episode and used to live out there.

And wish I still did <sigh>

We had a lake, Lake Peigneur, disappear in Louisiana some years ago, but it's back now.

another article with more information.

They suggested the melting of nearby glaciers raised the lake's level to the point where the increased water pressure caused part of a glacier acting as a dam to give way. Water in the lake flowed out of the breach, into a nearby fiord and then to the sea, said Andres Rivera, a glaciologist with Chile's Center of Scientific Studies.

it then goes on to say...

The advance and retreat of glaciers is part of the normal dynamics of the Patagonia but climate change was distorting the process, Rivera said.

"This would not be happening if the temperature had not increased," Rivera said.

animalmagnet, yeah, maybe Texaco was drilling in China.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo

TheOther: Rivera said the incident was evidence of the effects of global warming.

I'd say it's kind of fishy as well to claim it's evidence of global warming. I mean, earlier in the article he states "It looks like it's slowly filling up with water again", if it were related to global warming, you'd think it'd be filling up quicker since the glacier[s] would be melting quickly... The entire concept of a "buildup of water" in a lake seems kind of odd to claim it's linked to global warming.


/OMGZ, there's a buildup of water in the ocean! run for your lives!

a 10-12 acre lake? in florida that is called a pond, and I'll bet you about 1000 of them have dried up and fill back up over the last ten years.

Stacked Librarian: Do you think they could find my husband's watch? It's been missing since October.



was it this watch?

Well gosh golly, thank goodness. Now I can sleep again.

Sooooo - they gonna hire a Dutch boy to fix that crack?

you know what watch i was talking about

/obscure?
//not

FTFA: "It looks like it's slowly filling up with water again," said Andres Rivera,

On a completely unrelated note, the icebergs at the bottom of the lake seem to be disappearing at a rapid rate.

Limnologists wordwide are condfounded.

/Break the damn Yul

Rivera said the incident was evidence of the effects of global warming.

Oh, way to go Rivera. Turn a nice little science article into a flame war.

Putz.

I'm calling the Tanqueray guy. He'll know what to do with all that ice.

Didn't we figure out the cause like a month ago? It's hard to attribute anything to global warming unless you have alot of empirical evidence.

I just spilt some beer that must be global warming fault. Global warming isn't the cause of every natural phenomenon, sometimes shait happens, ice damns break, even in winter because glaciers are constantly moving.

Nah, it was the Nazis that live in the middle of the Earth ,trying to open a new way out for their Flying Saucers.

Someone invited this chick over while she was on the rag:

Vortex Tampons

For all the chilenos in the thread:

Bacan po loko! Cachai?

/yo amo chile

Funny, this article says it was global warming.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_sc/chile_missing_lake

Anyone else get the feeling global warming was made up to account for things shiatty scientists can't explain, hence the reason why scientists can't agree on GW either.

Enough with everything being global warmings fault. Christ on a crutch all ready. There was such a thing as natural forces before mankind. The scientific community has now jumped the shark. Their huge brains have all simultaneously melted down. All conclusions for everything, my knee soreness, my neigbors crappy lawn, the Sahara Desert, the freeing of political prisoners, and lakes drying up in Chile, all from global warming. For anyone who thinks manmade warming deniers are a bunch of tards, you need look no further than those in the scientific community in support of manmade warming to come to an equally similar conclusion about them.

The lake is ...fed by melt-water from glaciers

So the lake being there isn't a sign of global warming....but it's disappearance is?

Since they mentioned the crack in the original story on this, my only comment is DUUUUUUUH.