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Updated: 12:25 PM Nov 24, 2010
Lake Tahoe Warming Faster Than Land
A first-of-its-kind NASA study is finding nice cool lakes like Lake Tahoe are heating up - even faster than air.
Posted: 11:46 AM Nov 24, 2010Reporter: Associated Press Email Address: news@kolotv.com |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A first-of-its-kind NASA study is finding nice cool lakes like Lake Tahoe 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 since 1985. That's about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures in the same time period.
Study co-author Simon Hook says Lake Tahoe in the Sierra and Lake Ladoga in Russia have warmed the most. Hook is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.
He says Tahoe heated up by 3 degrees the last 25 years, while Ladoga has been even hotter, going up by 4 degrees.
The study was published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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