2-Kilometer Glacial Lake In Chilean Andes Disappears - Filled, Then Rapidly Drained By Warming

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Santiago, April 11 (IANS) The Chilean government has sent a team of geologists to investigate the sudden disappearance of a glacial lake in the south of the country. raising a renewed debate over global warming. Experts say glacial melting in the wake of rising global temperature had swelled the lake which then drained the excess water and eventually dried up, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Friday.

Cachet 2, a five kilometre long glacial lake in the eastern sector of the Northern Ice Field in Aysen area disappeared apparently due to the relatively high temperatures.

The disappearance of the lake was discovered Monday when experts observed a heavy increase in the flow of the Baker River that flows through the region.

Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier, which he blamed on rising world temperatures, filled the lake and increased pressure on the ice sheet. The water bored a five-kilometre long tunnel through the glacier and finally emptied into the Baker River on April 6.

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http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/chilean-glacial-lake-dries-up-in-global-warming_10036973.html

[Teaser]

1. Good. Glaciers just take up the available real estate

We've all got refrigerators. We can make our own ice.

[tanyev]

2. Plus, it will be so much easier to drill for oil with all the glaciers gone!

[Teaser]

3. now you're cookin' with gas!

That's the spirit!

[NNadir]

4. I love how the article uses the word "debate."

What "debate?"

[Nihil]

5. They missed out "mass" ...

... probably because everyone already knows that governments around the world
are full of mass-debaters ...