Loss of lake ice has wide-ranging environmental and societal consequences. “The average duration of iced-over conditions has decreased by 31 days over the last 165 years and thousands of lakes that historically froze over every winter now experience ice-free years,”
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/loss-lake-ice-has-wide-ranging-environmental-and-societal-consequences
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The world’s freshwater lakes are freezing over for shorter periods of time due to climate change. This shift has major implications for human safety, as well as water quality, biodiversity, and global nutrient cycles, according to a new review from an international team of researchers led by Carnegie Science’s Stephanie Hampton.
Undertaken by scientists based in the United States, Canada, and Sweden, this analysis represents a major call-to-action for wintertime freshwater ecology research. It is published in Science.
The world has millions of freshwater lakes, most of which freeze during the winter. The team’s rigorous review indicates a massive shift in lake ice duration over the past 25 years, with melting starting at least a month earlier than in previous centuries.
“The average duration of iced-over conditions has decreased by 31 days over the last 165 years and thousands of lakes that historically froze over every winter now experience ice-free years,” Hampton explains. “This has major implications for communities around the world that depend on these lakes for drinking water, recreation, fishing, and ice-road transportation, as well as for spiritual and cultural identity.”
Sounds like a first world problem to me , with shrilanka’s huge flooding that caused millions to flee there homes , in recent years , and while islanders in the Pacific watche there homes fall complely benieth the sea , causing there populations to flee and just this week huricane Milton caused the evacuation of 5 milliom people in Florida, then theres massive mega bush/Forrest fires that create their own weather paterns from Austalia to france USA and Canada,
A frozen lake or 2 may bring it home for a few priverledged europeans and their skating season but hey , but its nothing in the big catastrophic picture. And this reporting study id suggest trivialises the scale of the catastrophe that confronts us .