Posted on 08/04/2007 3:39:48 PM PDT by chessplayer
MARQUETTE, Michigan (AP) -- Deep enough to hold the combined water in all the other Great Lakes and with a surface area as large as South Carolina, Lake Superior's size has lent it an aura of invulnerability.
Superior's level is at its lowest point in eight decades and will set a record this fall if, as expected, it dips three more inches.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Well, no problem: global warming will melt the ice caps and fill Lake Superior right up again. And I’m sure global warming caused the loss in the first place: all that heat that the north experiences during the winter months caused millions of acre feet of water to evaporate. Yes...that’s it.
Perhaps this is tied in with his drinking problem.
This article is not really specific about later levels. Here’s what I’ve heard:
The lake’s water depth above sea level:
* Average: 601.92 feet
* Current level: 600.25 feet.
* Lowest recorded level: 599.92 feet in 1926
I don’t see it as a crisis, but then, I’m not a highly trained journalist.
The area has been rising ever since the last ice age. It will continue to rise, and the lake level will continue to fall until the next ice age.
An arm-chair guess would point to increased solar radiation rather than an increase that came from higher air temperature. In other words, if the climate-alarmists are correct about greenhouse gases, then the air is getting warmer and that should warm up everything else. But in this case the lake is getting warmer than the air.
Rove Weather Machine strikes again!
Any data about the volume of outflow from the lake on a year to year basis?
Has anybody thought to consult with Dr. Albert Gore?
Meanwhile, the average water temperature has surged 4.5 degrees since 1979, ....it was way too cold for swimming and needed warming up...
I notice the article doesn’t discuss water usage? Is it possible that a growing population and/or increasing agricultural needs are drawing the lake down?
He’s busy looking for manbearpig and couldn’t be reached for comment.
"Lake Superior: Does Water In = Water Out?" by George Hite. April, 1998
Probably at least 10 years ago...
I saw a late-night TV news report about the dropping level of Lake
Michigan.
The film footage even showed a marina in which boats were in danger
of grounding due to the dropping water level.
I never heard a thing about afterwards. And being a FR conspiracy-fan,
I figured it got no press because it somehow wasn’t totally consistent
with “global warming” or some other environmental theory popular with
folks like Al Gore.
Thank you Karl! Now its time to point it somewhere else for a little while.
Man that “Camp Sheehan” in Crawford would have been a hog wallerin mess this year! Come to think of it.......
I don’t know, but I do know that it’s not just Superior. All of the Great Lakes are shrinking, and have been for decades. I grew up in Michigan, and remember seeing a movie at school about 40 years ago about how the land in that area was rising, and had been since the ice age. I don’t think that the overall outflow from the Great Lakes has increased. It’s all got to go up the St. Laurence seaway, and the flow has not increased on that. Maybe the outflow from Superior alone has increased, because the lake level of the other lakes has declined.
LOL
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