Great Lakes Won't Cooperate With Climate Alarmists

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 8/12/2015 | Jack Spencer

[cripplecreek]

Join the aqua resistance!

[ConservativeInPA]

Be berry, berry quiet. Don’t mention the Great Lakes ice coverage during the past two winters.

[cripplecreek]

Or the above average rainfall for the last couple years.

[Cyman]

If I have control over what the denominator is, I can win ANY and ALL arguments for Globull Warming to the angle of bend of Will’ys willy.

[WayneS]

I’ll bet the Obama [in]Justice Department is drawing up indictments against the “Lake Brothers” (aka “Huron” and “Michigan”) even as I type this. They will be charged with “climate denial in the first degree” and “questioning settled science”...

[sauropod]

bkmk

[cripplecreek]

Lake Superior says "Bring it".

[Leep]

Hang em’ in the pubic squarrr. They be witches!

[oh8eleven]

Don’t mention the Great Lakes ice coverage during the past two winters.
I'm 5 miles south of Lake Ontario - I'm still cold.

[LukeL]

Also a couple of years ago we had a very cold winter with near 100% ice coverage on the lakes. This prevented a whole ton of evaporation that usually occurs in the dry winter.

Also I remember reading an article that massive dredging on the Great Lakes led to a drop in lake levels.

[WayneS]

Even Loretta Lynch isn’t crazy enough to go after Superior.

[ConservativeInPA]

Or the above average rainfall for the last couple years.

You are not implying that there is correlation between rainfall and lake levels, are you? We would need a complex computer model to determine that.

[ConservativeInPA]

I guess you are in NYS. Are you sure you’re just not getting the ‘cold’ shoulder from Albany?

[cripplecreek]

Well I have been peeing outside a lot so there is that.

[oh8eleven]

Are you sure you’re just not getting the ‘cold’ shoulder from Albany?
Having worked in NYS since I was 16 (many moons ago), I've been getting more than a cold shoulder from Albany. SOBs.

[ConservativeInPA]

The effect of that depends on how much beer you have been drinking.

[Pontiac]

Of course, for most of the 4,000-plus years the Great Lakes have existed in their modern form (they first came into being around 10,000 years ago) no one was systematically tracking water levels. But the United States Geological Survey, which studies the geological evidence of water level changes going back millennia, says the swings were far more extreme in the distant past than in recent centuries.

This is true.

I live near the South Shore of Lake Erie and my house sits on what several thousand years ago was the South shore of Lake Erie. That house is about 200 feet higher than the current lake level.

[babble-on]

Here’s a great interface with all this data.

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/dashboard/GLWLD.html

[JimRed]

But the article itself acknowledged that Lakes Huron and Michigan, which come together in the Straits of Mackinac and so are considered one lake by hydrologists, actually rose faster 65 years ago. So why did the headline writer call the current rise “faster than ever before?"

Because, like all warmists, the author is a liar!