[MCN] A scenario for Flathead Lake real estate values?
Lance Olsen
lance at wildrockies.org
Sun Feb 14 19:28:33 EST 2016
Climate change warming area lakes
CT Post
- ?53 minutes ago?
Scientists warn that lake warming will not only
damage ecosystems - increasing algae blooms and
killing off certain species of fish, for example
- but could also create spinoff economic effects,
eventually including devaluation of lakeside
properties.
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Climate-change-warming-area-lakes-6830600.php
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"Our results indicate that future reductions in
Arctic sea ice cover could significantly reduce
available water in the American west...."
Jacob O. Sewall and Lisa Cirbus Sloan.
Disappearing Arctic sea ice reduces available
water in the American west
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS VOL. 31, 2004
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" the proportion of the land surface in extreme
drought is predicted to increase from 1% for the
present day to 30% by the end of the twenty-first
century."
Eleanor J. Burke et al. Modeling the Recent
Evolution of Global Drought and Projections for
the Twenty-First Century with the Hadley Centre
Climate Model. JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
OCTOBER 2006
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"Linkages between northern high-latitude climate
and precipitation in the Sierra Nevada suggested
here could indicate that, under conditions of
continued global warming, this drought-prone
region may experience a reduction in
Pacific-sourced moisture."
Jessica L. Oster et al. Late Pleistocene
California droughts during deglaciation and
Arctic warming. Earth and Planetary Science
Letters 2009
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