Scientists: Climate change tightening ‘alarming’ grip on Lake Tahoe

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Scientists: Climate change tightening ‘alarming’ grip on Lake Tahoe


















 







INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Scientists on Thursday reported that Lake Tahoe experienced a year like no other in 2015, as evidenced by information in the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center’s annual “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report.”The report summarizes how natural forces, long-term change and human actions have affected Lake Tahoe’s clarity, physics, chemistry and biology over time.It presents data collected in 2015 and puts it in the context of long-term trends and previous records.Record-breaking measurementsContinued warm and dry conditions contributed to several record-breaking measurements. Among them:Climate change: While precipitation was near average, only 6.5 percent of it fell  …
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