NEWS

Report: Climate Change Affecting Tahoe’s Temperatures

07/29/2008

Kellene Stockwell
Channel 2 News

The waters of Lake Tahoe are getting warmer at a rate faster than the world’s oceans.

And the main authority in the Basin is now including climate change in its policies according to a global warming study released by U.C. Davis.

The 2004 report says the lake’s temperatures rose one degree in 33 years ending in 2002.

Comparatively, the ocean’s temperature rose roughly a half degree in that same time period.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency says warming temperatures threaten forests by increasing fire danger and the lake with declining activity.

TRPA officials hope to include policies to combat global warming like mass transit, green building practices and healthy forest initiatives.