Midwest hot waters: Thousands of fish die

[Cartesiantheater]

http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-fish...183228110.html

Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees.
About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they've seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species.
So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcasses clogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering water levels to the point that the station had to shut down one of its generators.
"It's something I've never seen in my career, and I've been here for more than 17 years," said Mark Flammang, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "I think what we're mainly dealing with here are the extremely low flows and this unparalleled heat."

Forty thousand is quite the large number. What could the ramifications be? Could this throw some ecosystems out of whack a bit, or will this be just another blip on the radar? The fish is usually a pretty hardy creature, but this recent weather seems to be beyond their ability to resist.

Flammang said weekend rain improved some of Iowa's rivers and lakes, but temperatures were rising again and straining a sturgeon population that develops health problems when water temperatures climb into the 80s.
"Those fish have been in these rivers for thousands of thousands of years, and they're accustomed to all sorts of weather conditions," he said. "But sometimes, you have conditions occur that are outside their realm of tolerance."

[GamerGal]

? This is just more of that Gore-Kneegrow Mooslim conspiracy that the planet is getting warmer. All good corporations know we're entering an ice age all those wiberar scientists are just trying to punish good wholesome white corporations(Which are people)