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Study: Climate Change Could Outpace EPA Lake Champlain Protections
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=23737&category=ucommall[font face=Serif][font size=5]Study: Climate Change Could Outpace EPA Lake Champlain Protections[/font]
[font size=4]Powerful new model indicates that current pollution standards may be inadequate to ward off worsening algae blooms[/font]
11-17-2016 By Joshua E. Brown
[font size=3]New research suggests that Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was previously understood—and that, therefore, the rules created by the EPA to protect the lake may be inadequate to prevent algae blooms and water quality problems as the region gets hotter and wetter.
“This paper provides very clear evidence that the lake could be far more sensitive to climate change than is captured by the current approach of the EPA,” said University of Vermont professor Asim Zia, the lead author of the new study. “We may need more interventions—and this may have national significance for how the agency creates regulations.”
The research was published November 17 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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The study, led by a team of ten scientists from UVM and one from Dartmouth College, used a powerful set of computer models that link the behavior of social and ecological systems. Their results show that accelerating climate change could easily outpace the EPA’s land-use management policies aimed at reducing the inflow of pollution from agricultural runoff, parking lots, deforestation, cow manure, lawn fertilizer, pet waste, streambank erosion—and other sources of excess phosphorus that cause toxic algae and lake health problems.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114026[font size=4]Powerful new model indicates that current pollution standards may be inadequate to ward off worsening algae blooms[/font]
11-17-2016 By Joshua E. Brown
[font size=3]New research suggests that Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was previously understood—and that, therefore, the rules created by the EPA to protect the lake may be inadequate to prevent algae blooms and water quality problems as the region gets hotter and wetter.
“This paper provides very clear evidence that the lake could be far more sensitive to climate change than is captured by the current approach of the EPA,” said University of Vermont professor Asim Zia, the lead author of the new study. “We may need more interventions—and this may have national significance for how the agency creates regulations.”
The research was published November 17 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
…
The study, led by a team of ten scientists from UVM and one from Dartmouth College, used a powerful set of computer models that link the behavior of social and ecological systems. Their results show that accelerating climate change could easily outpace the EPA’s land-use management policies aimed at reducing the inflow of pollution from agricultural runoff, parking lots, deforestation, cow manure, lawn fertilizer, pet waste, streambank erosion—and other sources of excess phosphorus that cause toxic algae and lake health problems.
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