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Lake Disappears into Andes
steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
Just like what happened to the lake in that James Bond movie. Launch the rocket!
.... for One Hundred Million Dollars!
We are all just people.
Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
Yeah, because global warming obviously leaves huge chunks of ice when it makes lakes disappear.
Next time, the news without the hot-button bias, please?
it was *RIGHT HERE* when I saw it last.
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LAKE! Whoa! Be Gone!
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Yes, every unusual event can be safely assumed to be caused by global warming until there is evidence to the contrary. Who can deny that logic?
I'm fairly certain that it is considered scientifically proven beyond doubt that recent shifting in the upper layers of the Earth's crust are in fact due to the drying period we're now entering due to global warming. I can't believe you'd question such things; do you not understand causality versus correlation?
What keeps "Old Faithful" at Yosemite alive and ticking....
However, at the bottom of where the lake was, is a huge crop circle in the shape of an X-Box. Additionally, a message from space was found engraved on a titanium plate. Translators think it said "All your lake are belong to us".
Lots of news organizations keeping selling this story as if there's a mystery.
Well... What's the mystery?
I mean, TFA explains it fairly well:
1. earthquake creates a hole in the ground
2. water goes into the hole
What're the alternatives?
That a herd of wooly mammoths drank up the lake?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Sorry. I was really, really thirsty.
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The aliens did it. Just like Stonehenge, crop circles, and Al Gore.
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I can't believe how horribly wrong you ALL are. This was caused by the natural phenomenon known as Chuck Norris. He got thirsty, drank the lake, and then punched the earth as a calling card to his greatness.
Use your heads people, COME ON.
If anyone finds an old leather-bound book in the fissure, please send it to:
"Atrus, Son of Ghen."
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Isn't that where all of them are?
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What would happen if most herrings were red?
Can't we just blame terrorists like always?
*goes back to bed*
When I read that, I heard in my head in a surfer-dude voice saying it as in, "Global warming is totally off the hook! It's AWESOME!"
I was confused.
I had to reread it to get the real meaning. My blood sugar must low, excuse me, I think I need to eat some dinner.
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That Breitbart site is a little fruity. How can you find it credible?
Of course global warming caused this.
Global warming caused the earth to expand, resulting in the outer crust cracking slightly, and the lake drained into it.
GW causes EVERYTHING!
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
It crossed the pacific ocean to Maitland, NSW. You can have it back now...
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Mysterious New 5 Acre Lake Appears in Crawford, TX
Obviously global warming has caused the earth itself to expand, resulting in this fissure.
But eventually this expansion will cause a similar fissure to open under an ocean and allow the world's seas to drain, thus eliminating the fabricated risk of rising sea levels from the proven myth of glacial melt. So even if all those ignorant, biased climatologists living the caviar lifestyle on fat research grants somehow turn out to be right despite the overwheming evidence to the contrary from expert SUV drivers and totally impartial oil magnates, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
I call this "The Moronic Knee-Jerk Theory of Environmental Equilibrium", and expect it to be accepted widely by people who like to set up obvious straw-men.
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Never attribute to tectonic events that which can be adequately explained by global warming.
Well, I didn't read the article, but from the blurb it sounds like it disappeared into Andy's fissure. Sounds painful, that lake looked cold.
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My vote goes to Second Hand SmokeTM.
....and their water cooling requirements.
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>> a lake disappeared into a hole in the ground:
> Isn't that where all of them are?
No. There are holes in donuts, holes in the ozone, holes in theories, holes in IE, and three holes in my underwear.
"All your lake are belong to us."
There, I got it out. Mod me down.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Meanwhile... 7-11 just sold their first petagulp.
Coincidence? I think not.
i stopped reading right there. anyone claiming to have accurate readings back to 800,000 years is a liar
For real. Don't these heretics know the Earth is only 6000 years old?
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QUOTE: The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
uh, what do you think caused the earthquake? That's right! GLOBAL WARMING! Of course, you would know this if you had seen the movie, "An Inconvenient Sicko" starring Al Bore...
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Good question! While we're at it:
How many years can a mountain exist before it's washed to the sea?
Yes and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?