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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 375599" data-attributes="member: 389"><p>I should know better, but I'm going to bite on this one anyway. As a classically trained geologist, I can assure you that climate stability is not necessarily the norm. Put a marker on the ground and I would bet everything I have that the climate for that particular spot has "changed" over the past couple hundred years. </p><p></p><p>Since most of us live in ND, the absolute easiest way to point out that things are not the same as XX years ago is with water on the ground. In the 1980s the NDGF had less than 200 fisheries they managed/stocked. Since then the lakes across ND that are what we hydrologists consider semi-closed basins have been rising and as a body of water gets deep enough the NDGF throws fish in them and we are now around 470 managed fisheries. Devils Lake may be the poster child for this, but there are lakes all across ND that have been rising over the past 30+ years. Rice Lakes in Ward and Emmons county are a couple of good examples, so is Horsehead, Sibley, Lake 5, Stober, Alkaline, Twin Lakes, Boom Lake, and the darn list goes on and on. If you drive across ND using Highway 2, 200, or I-94 you will see a great number of water bodies that have cormorant roosts in the form of dead cottonwood trees anywhere from 50-150 yards out from the shoreline. Those trees lived for 80+ years on the shore of those lakes before dying as the water rose. These lakes are rising because something has changed in the past XX number of years in that area. Heck, the USGS biological station by Jamestown along with the entire farming community of ND have documented/seen the expansion of row crops that need a longer growing season. In fact the growing season in ND is now some 2+ weeks longer than it was in the early 1900s. Monsatan may want to take credit for the expansion of row crops, but a longer growing season is at least as responsible for the success of corn, sunflowers and beans across ND.</p><p></p><p>I am not a doom and gloom person when it comes to a change in the climate because I am convinced the humans on this planet have long proven their ability to adapt to a change in conditions, but ignoring the fact that things have changed comes with great peril if one is to continue on as if it's 1900.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen, post: 375599, member: 389"] I should know better, but I'm going to bite on this one anyway. As a classically trained geologist, I can assure you that climate stability is not necessarily the norm. Put a marker on the ground and I would bet everything I have that the climate for that particular spot has "changed" over the past couple hundred years. Since most of us live in ND, the absolute easiest way to point out that things are not the same as XX years ago is with water on the ground. In the 1980s the NDGF had less than 200 fisheries they managed/stocked. Since then the lakes across ND that are what we hydrologists consider semi-closed basins have been rising and as a body of water gets deep enough the NDGF throws fish in them and we are now around 470 managed fisheries. Devils Lake may be the poster child for this, but there are lakes all across ND that have been rising over the past 30+ years. Rice Lakes in Ward and Emmons county are a couple of good examples, so is Horsehead, Sibley, Lake 5, Stober, Alkaline, Twin Lakes, Boom Lake, and the darn list goes on and on. If you drive across ND using Highway 2, 200, or I-94 you will see a great number of water bodies that have cormorant roosts in the form of dead cottonwood trees anywhere from 50-150 yards out from the shoreline. Those trees lived for 80+ years on the shore of those lakes before dying as the water rose. These lakes are rising because something has changed in the past XX number of years in that area. Heck, the USGS biological station by Jamestown along with the entire farming community of ND have documented/seen the expansion of row crops that need a longer growing season. In fact the growing season in ND is now some 2+ weeks longer than it was in the early 1900s. Monsatan may want to take credit for the expansion of row crops, but a longer growing season is at least as responsible for the success of corn, sunflowers and beans across ND. I am not a doom and gloom person when it comes to a change in the climate because I am convinced the humans on this planet have long proven their ability to adapt to a change in conditions, but ignoring the fact that things have changed comes with great peril if one is to continue on as if it's 1900. [/QUOTE]
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