Posted on 09/05/2019 7:40:02 AM PDT by rktman
In the past 30 years, there have been only a handful of days when I could not take this walk. This summer, there have been only a handful of days when I could. Water levels on Erie and the other Great Lakes are higher than the historic norms, on Lake Erie much higher.
You need not take my word for it. An article this week in the U.K. Guardian assured its readers, "Depths of lakes that hold about 90 percent of U.S.'s freshwater spiking to record levels, from 14 inches to nearly 3 feet above long-term averages."
"Bigger picture, it's climate change," Richard B. Rood, a professor in the University of Michigan's department of climate and space sciences and engineering, told the Guardian. "There's no doubt that we are in a region where climate change is having an impact."
It wasn't supposed to be like this, however. For the past 20 or so years, climate scientists have promised the opposite. A 2002 National Geographic, "Down the Drain: The Incredible Shrinking Great Lakes," was one of many such articles to sound the alarm.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Climate scientists are the Gilligan’s of science....................
“Bigger picture, it’s climate change,” <-— This is why they rebranded it from “global warming” to “climate change”. “Change” can mean anything, so no matter what happens they claim it confirms their ravings. Lakes goes up, lake goes down, hey it’s changing, just like we predicted!
Climate scientists are like economists. Good at calculating and summating the past. Poor at predicting the future.
Climate Change. The “science” that explains everything and predicts nothing.
Econo-misseds...............
More like monkeys tossing shite at a wall:-)
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship’s bell rang
Could it be the north wind they’d been feelin’?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T’was the witch of November come stealin’
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin’
When afternoon came it was freezin’ rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’
Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya
At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it’s been good to know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin’ in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when ‘is lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
If they’d put fifteen more miles behind ‘er
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the maritime sailors’ cathedral
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Songwriters: Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
I read a few years ago that closing the gates and filling of the lake at the THREE GORGES DAM in China caused a minor change in the rotation or stability of the Earth or something like it.
Wonder if this is why we are getting nice weather here and across the High Plains the last few years. It used to be hotter and drier this time of year.
And like meteorologists who can always explain what and why a weather pattern happened— after the fact.
CLimate Scientists are like Economic Forecasters, they are only there to make Astrology appear to be a respectable science.
For the past 20 years the local newspaper has been documenting the falling lake levels caused by man made global warming.
That is until about 3 years ago when it started raining and snowing and waters rose to historic levels.
You know what I always say. Low lake levels. High lake levels. There's nothing man made global warming can't do.
“”There’s no doubt that we are in a region where climate change is having an impact.””
Yeah......
September in W. Michigan is the same as it has always been.
Winter is going to be the PITA it has as well, or we roll a mild one this time, as it is always.
The danger in Great Lakes shipping is not so much the wave height as it is the period (distance between wave peaks/troughs). They’re so much shorter than in the open seas that they would break the backs of most ocean-going cargo-carrying ships when the ends get suspended or left hanging between peaks.
Just listened to that 2 days ago. It’s that time of year!
I still remember “THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT” of the 1960s, then suddenly it was THE COMING ICE AGE of the 1970s.
POPULAR SCIENCE, around 1981, had an editorial about how they would never use the term “Greenhouse Effect” again as it wasn’t true.
I read their magazine for several years after when they suddenly, in the 1990s, jumped on the Glo-Bull Warming bandwagon.
High water levels on the Great Lakes is a cyclic thing.
Here's a story from this past May about the 1970s flooding: https://www.candgnews.com/news/looking-back-on-the-1970s-flooding-in-st-clair-shores-113480
These are the dikes that I mentioned, only they were filled to the top with dirt.
I am really tired of these moron scientists making wild claims. But hey if I could get $200 Million dollars from the government I’m sure that I could prove that the earth’s weather is changing. Cold in winter hot in summer. That is a huge change. So where is my money.
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