*In one example swiftly taken down by NOAA after my first article, readings for June and July 2010 for Lake Michigan showed crazy temperatures off the scale ranging in the low to mid hundreds - with some parts of the Wisconsin area apparently reaching 612 F.
This is why non-scientists should not be allowed to see raw climate data. Anyone with a PhD level understanding of statistics is only too aware that surface temperature levels in the great lakes are often hundreds, even thousands, of degrees above the sea-level boiling point of water. This is because the great lakes are not at sea level, a fact not comprehended by the author of this misleading and ignorant article.*
This explains why al gore says it’s “millions of degrees” 2km beneath the surface of the Earth!
Oddly enough, I am trained in statistics and have spent a good deal of time swimming in lake Michigan. I can assure you with confidence levels that vastly exceed 96.7% that heating is not a problem in that lake.
Major shrinkage is.