Posted on 04/13/2024 5:53:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Scientists have created an interactive map that shows how parts of Illinois may be swallowed up by Lake Michigan as climate change bites.
The Great Lakes in the Midwest comprise the largest unfrozen freshwater stores on Earth, but experts have forecast that rising water levels could have serious consequences.
More than 30 million people live along the lakes' roughly 4,500 miles of coastline, which stretches across the U.S. and Canada, and touches upon the cities of Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, New York. That means millions of families could be hit hard by new, higher water levels, which could potentially wash away homes and jobs in the surrounding areas in the future.
"New research using the most advanced regional climate modeling systems finds that the baseline lake level for Lake Superior, Michigan-Huron and Erie are expected to rise by roughly 20 to 50 centimeters [up to half a meter, or 1.6 feet] by 2050 as a result of climate change," researchers at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) wrote in a report published in June 2022. "Like sea level rise, higher lake levels can increase coastal erosion, change navigation considerations and increase the risk of coastal flooding."
But others believe the rises in lake water levels could potentially be even more "dramatic."
Research by Michigan Technological University in 2022 revealed: "Over the past decades, the water levels of the Great Lakes have undergone dramatic fluctuations, exhibiting a range exceeding 2 meters [over 6 feet]. These changes are due to climate-induced alterations in the three primary components of the lakes' water budget: over-lake precipitation, lake evaporation, and basin runoff."
Now, curious Americans can use a tool created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct their own research. The government agency has created an interactive map showing how the lake's shorelines...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
In 1900 to promote canal traffic, the Illinois River /Calumet was reversed. A rise in lake levels could simply drain more water to the Mississippi.
Scientists have created an interactive map.
Again hype and control button pushed again.
“Scientists” continue to make up “research” to “prove” what their paymasters want the outcome to be.
It is all about Marxism and control.
The whole area was once at the bottom of Lake Michigan, and the city of Blue Island is on a glacial moraine that was once an island in the lake. Sometimes Nature giveth, and sometimes Nature taketh away.
This is literally demented on so many levels. The lake levels vary up to a couple feet anyway, quite independent of any long term trends. And the notion that lake levels will just keep rising and rising is absurd because the lakes have an outlet - have these clowns never heard of Niagara falls?
Even if there was sustained heavier rain and snowfall in the water shed, who cares? It would be absolutely trivial to drain off some towards the Mississippi river (the watershed of which literally reaches Chicago city limits). Or the western states that are always clamoring for water to be sent their way from the Great Lakes could pay for just such a project.
File this under opportunities, not alarmism. Sheesh.
Wherever you roam"
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times, they are a-changin'
In a landlocked lake, excess water goes downstream one way or another. What dam is closing the Niagara river?
If such an increase in water happens, then the Niagara Falls gets more water, more erosion, and, for a while, more spectacular.
Then all the water goes to the sea.
Is this the "Missing Link" you were searching for?
If we don’t act now it will be too late again.
You got to it faster! I had the same idea.
Only I forgot that there’s a canal system from the lake to the Des Plaines river.
I am not sure of the difference in levels, but currently they have locks to control the direction of the current.
Just guessing, probably not near enough of Chicago would be (if this fantasy were somehow to come true) underwater.
Can we later arrest for fraud the “scientists” that make such wild predicitions, when the predictions fail to come true??? We ought to be able to.
I don’t care about Chicago. Let them drown.
A post I used recently on another water level rising thread:
I just recently had cause to interact with a civil engineer who works out of the Portland Oregon area. I later looked at his website. His company’s work is based on predicted ocean level rises that will affect coastline activity. They go around various coastal sections and advise landowners what corrections to make to compensate for future damage.
He makes a very good living. Climate change is big business, this is just one small example.
Their work is based on one “scientific survey” that predicts the Oregon coast will rise 6” over the next 13 years. This is wildly hypothetical and flies in the face of other predictions that show millimeters rise per year, if any.
But this engineer and his cohorts latch onto this, and convince coastal owners to prepare for doomsday. And they pay big bucks for this “service”.
And then George Strait won't be the only person with ocean-front property in Arizona.
Good!
If we’re lucky it will swallow up Chicago
It seems like just a short time ago we were told the level are receding...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/water-levels-of-the-great-lakes-are-declining/
Climate change..... Is there anything it can’t do.
(Understand that the Niagara Gorge, 20+ miles of it, is the result of the water carving back.)
They have turned off the Falls completely, several times, off season, to clean things up, and recover bones wedged in the rocks.
That's weather. Or it's a natural cycle in the existing climate. It's not climate change.
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