Global warming got a little testy this week, just days before the Live Earth seven-continent concert gala on 7/7/07. “So, you can get the Foo Fighters to play a concert? I can make a whole goddamn lake disappear!”
Park rangers cruising over Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in remote southern Chile a few weeks ago found the fishing wasn’t as sweet as they remembered – in place of a lake, there was a 130-foot deep crater. “This would not be happening if the temperature had not increased,” said Andres Rivera, a glaciologist with Chile's Center of Scientific Studies, who blamed the sudden breach of a natural dam. But the most unsettling part – this lake-turned-hole happened in less than two months.
