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- Bukowsky, on 05/02/2008, -1/+30wow! That's a pretty big lake!
FTA - "The Siberian lake contains an enormous 20% of the entire world's freshwater, and is large enough to hold all the water in the Great Lakes combined and then some." - PhishTahko, on 05/02/2008, -6/+33Not denying climate change and whatnot, but if this lake is 25 million years old it's been through a couple of ice ages and global warmings and come out on top. We're not killing it off any time soon.
- insonh, on 05/02/2008, -13/+37something, something, something, global warming
something, something, something, Death Star - trogdor282, on 05/02/2008, -1/+20As I recall, our books were so old that all it said about Russia was that it could suck our fat American asses. And then 20 pages about the Great Lakes.
- Tochi, on 05/02/2008, -0/+12Like most landmarks I've never heard of, I google-mapped this... I had to zoom out pretty far to get the whole thing in the window...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=l ... - waraey, on 05/02/2008, -3/+15So they say the lake is warming but in the past 25 million years I bet the lake has been warmer than it is now.
- StrangeFamous, on 05/02/2008, -2/+10badger, badger, badger, mushroom mushroom
- meganallison, on 05/02/2008, -1/+8Oh, awesome. I went to the award ceremony for the Goldman Environmental Prize this year, and the winner from the Asian continent was one of the pioneering conservationists for Baikal (http://www.goldmanprize.org/2008/asia). Her speech was both inspirational and terrifying; most of the acceptance speeches were really optimistic and hers was like, "the government is trying to stop us and harm my son." I was like, "dang Russia, you are *****."
- reynolds3g, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7I was in Mongolia for a couple years and lots of people were talking about this lake just north of them in Siberia. Always wanted to check it out, but couldn't. It looks beautiful.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 05/02/2008, -5/+11What a shame if the trend continues.
- norman619, on 05/02/2008, -4/+10It's called change. As humans our lives are pretty freaking short. Too short to understand that the globe is in a constant state of change. Our egos are immense tho. We seem to think we are the cause of everything bad and that we can stop natural cycles we don't even understand.
- ddawg7000, on 05/02/2008, -2/+8Global warming?
This article failed to mention the other environmental concerns about the great lake:
Baykalsk Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM) was constructed in 1966 directly on the shore line. The BPPM bleaches its paper with chlorine and discharges the waste into Baikal. Despite numerous protests, the BPPM is still in production. Environmental activists are now struggling to make the pollution less harmful rather than end BPPM's production since a plant shutdown would destroy valuable jobs. - noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -5/+11It's not even in trouble,it's already survived global warming and global cooling.
- mrzeero, on 05/02/2008, -0/+6At 1,637 meters (5,371 ft), Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal - BabyWookie, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Probably 70% of North America's fresh water.
- trollick, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5In Soviet Russia lake... does... something to you... that one would normally do to a lake in the rest of the world...
- cubicledrone, on 05/02/2008, -1/+6"Science is the only place where one can achieve such a huge return in speculation for such a trifling investment of fact."
-- Mark Twain - inactive, on 05/02/2008, -1/+6Mount St Helens changed, there was nothing we could do to stop it.
- funkyjunk3, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Practically everyone's heard of Lake Titicaca. Probably 75% of them couldn't tell you what continent is on though.
- cnot3, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5about a mile I believe... its been a while since I've seen Planet Earth
- shakin, on 05/02/2008, -1/+6It's less than half the size of Lake Superior. It's bigger by volume because it's so deep.
- humperdeath, on 05/02/2008, -1/+6I am sure it will survive me, and anyone else reading this post.
- dondara, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Seen Planet Earth? Dude, you live there.
- Orion1004, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5This is one of the world's great biological gems...the Russian poet Pushkin wrote a beautiful poem about the lake. Would be tragic to see it transformed.
- noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Christ that comment was buried too? God damn these facts and their pesky habit of being right on the mark.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 05/02/2008, -2/+7Considering that temperatures were much higher during the Rennisainse than today, I'm sure the lake will be fine.
- norman619, on 05/02/2008, -1/+5As I recall our schooling doesn't foucs all that much on RUSSIAN geography. Do you know much about Russian geography? I'm betting the answer is no. Unless you are Russian and grew up there.
- vexingmodstwo, on 05/02/2008, -1/+5WHAT?
- Matteos, on 05/02/2008, -1/+5Huh?
- noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4This the lake? http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.774689,106.6 ...
- BabyWookie, on 05/02/2008, -5/+8Dude! It's the largest lake (by volume of water) in the world, for heck's sake! 20% of world's fresh water! It doesn't matter which country it's in. Every one should be aware of it. I am not African, but I know about Lake Victoria.
- Ryan2845, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4I'm with norman619 on this one, change will happen. People seem to think that we have the power freeze frame the earth and keep it exactly as it is now, which is impossible. The earth will always be changing (whether it is because of us or not) and will be long after we are gone. For example, something like 95% of all species that have existed on earth over the last few billion years are now extinct, change happens.
- noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4Not sure why you've been buried, the lake would have to have endured both extremes repeatedly throughout 25 million years
- jimchou, on 05/02/2008, -2/+5It's not really about the lake, it's about the things living in the lake. When the planet cools/warms by itself that usually happens in geologic time, giving living things time to evolve to meet the changing conditions. Humans are changing the climate instantaneously in geologic terms.
Slow changes are fine, plants and animals can adapt. Quick changes, whether they're caused by humans, asteroids, or widespread volcanoes, cause lots of extinctions. - noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4On the contrary life is a glorious transformation to watch. Your poet Pushkin would likely marvel at the change had it occured in front of him.
- toekneebullard, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Ha! Who's the big lake now?!
- Dongvid, on 05/02/2008, -1/+3Buried as inaccurate. The earth is only a few thousand years old. Believe me.
- hfactor, on 05/02/2008, -1/+3During what?
- blueskydiver76, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2I thought it looked like a giant skidmark.
- deaftly, on 05/02/2008, -7/+9Largest Lake is in trouble? Someone help Ricki!
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2I need Kamchatka to stop green from getting all of Asia!!
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2you could do your part to help the problem by killing yourself.
- Trini2daBone, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Did some one leave a piece of tape on the lake, in the pic (if so nice stitch)? if you zoom in it looks like highway that just stops in the middle of the lake, but then it also just stops in the middle of a mountain
- noahhoward, on 05/02/2008, -2/+4Can a fallacy even be refuted?
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2maybe he doesn't.
- ChaosProfessor, on 05/02/2008, -1/+3it takes 350 years for water to get from one end to the other on average
- norman619, on 05/02/2008, -1/+3The whole thing is a bit light on facts and heavy on emotional argument. Imagine that. A science story w/o any facts. Something tells me science isn't an area she is all that familiar with.
- custerfluck, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2This lake is destined to become bottled watter :)
- shadeOfGrey, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2I could have sworn I was taught that the Great Lakes held like 70% of the earths fresh water.
Lousy public school system. - BrendanM14, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2whoa....thanks for putting this in perspective....that is a huge ***** lake....it looks as "tall" as the state of Washington.
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