Tens of THOUSANDS of fish DIE!!

[PDRed302]

Or it could be a natural muck that got stirred up combined with summer temperatures and the lack of oxygen. My friend, it is part of the nature's works as it has nothing do with us at all.

You must be right, it must happen every summer. Too bad I never heard of this happening when I lived in Michigan. Because you and I both know that its supposed to get hot enough up in Michigan to deprive the perfectly clean fresh water of lake Erie of oxygen.

Add that along with a natural occurrence of lake muck and scum build up and you've got what they must love to clean up almost yearly.

I'm not arguing that this wasn't something that a chain of events in nature caused to happen, just saying we didn't help, as a matter of fact I'm saying that we are partly responsible.

Like I stated originally, lake Erie has caught on fire from the pollution that it contains, you can't say that that is natural. Even though lightning striking the lake is what caught it to catch on fire. Lighting is natural but it isn't what caused it to catch on fire, the fire itself was caused solely by our impact (pollution).

 

[MN_Rebel]

First thing, Lake Erie is a shallow lake and like most shallow lakes, it is vulernable to summerkills. I see no evidence that we are partly responsible for die-offs, just the lake bottom got stirred up and only several bentic species were affected.

 

[PDRed302]

Since all the scientists that are working on why this happened can't figure it out maybe you should go explain it to them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/09/06/lake-erie-dead-fish-birds-_n_1860723.html

The shallow lake must be why the birds are dying as well.

I wasn't trying to argue whether or not this was a natural occurrence. But if you want to believe that we as humans have in absolutely no way affected the conditions on the lake or the temperature then that is your prerogative.

I leave you with a video about lake Erie (sorry don't know how to imbed videos):
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...oICADw&usg=AFQjCNFbffwgSel8Iq3mVo_nKYVZgbLKRA

P.S. regardless of how I may sound, I'm not a nature nut. All 3 of my cars have Detroit V8 gas guzzlers in them and I don't have a well or solar panels. But I am willing to say that I myself and humans as a whole have impacted the environment.

Have a good one