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Dec. 24, 2020
Global warming will not only cause sea levels to rise but lakes to shrink, a team of Dutch scientists warned this week. As a case in point, they predict a catastrophic drop in water levels in the Caspian Sea – presently the largest lake in the world – by the century’s end.
“Many people are not even aware that an inland lake is dramatically shrinking due to climate change, as our models indicate,” stated co-author Matthias Prange of the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, writing in Communications Earth and Environment. Which means countries are starting to think how to adapt to rising seas and creeping loss of low-lying coastland, but they’re not considering a decline in lake water levels.