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Posted on 02/04/2007 1:48:43 PM PST by Chi-townChief
I believe The Star ran a great editorial with "Preserving our Great Lakes" Jan. 28.
But is it already too late for Lake Superior? I have just returned from a trip to Copper Harbor, Mich. in the Upper Peninsula and was shocked to find the largest of the Great Lakes to be more than two feet lower than before. Locals say to the best of their knowledge it has never been this low -- at least not for the past 85 years.
Where did the water go to? Many guesses but no hard facts. When we camped at Copper Harbor last August the lake was slightly down. It was down about a foot when we came back in the fall. And now, less than five months later, the largest drop. I didn't see this covered in the national news but locals say it is a great concern for Michigan and Minnesota, as well as areas of Canada.
Harbors in all of these areas will be greatly affected and many attractions could be denied to the public. Isle Royale National Park and its shallow harbor may be unavailable for research and public use; these are just my thoughts on this issue.
It is said that the recent lack of rain and snow fall did not help out the situation but also did not cause the current problem. Some also think global warming may have had a hand in this problem but it's not the main cause.
Any suggestions?
Tony Mielcarz, Park Forest
From the looks of those water eroded cliffs along the southern shoreline, I would have to say the lake level has dropped a lot more than 2 feet over the last several thousand years.
The Biderberger group is siphoning the water off; later the accumulated water will be released as a tsunami.
Maybe, maybe not.
It's my understanding that the land in that area is rising as it "rebounds" from the glaciers there during the last Ice Age.
There is a great animation out there on the net (which I can't locate at the moment) that shows the water levels over the last 11,000 years - the lakes are mere shadows of their former selves already.
Quick! Someone get one of those melting icebergs and put it in the Lake.
Great Lakes steamships carry about 85-90 percent of what they did in the mid 1970s. Its been that way since 1990 or so.
The lakes are in a low cycle for the last few years, but were actually much lower in the sixties when the low historical mark was set.
That's from the US army corps of engineers.
These scaremongerers are unbelievable. It is supposed to be a high of 3° today. 3. And we might not reach it. I am watching as Lake Michigan is trying to freeze, you can see it forming and moving out from the land, it's already farther out than normal with arctic temperatures as far as the eye can see. BTW Lake Superior entirely froze over a few years back, only the fifth time in recorded history that happened. Yep, you guessed it.....global warming.....
If this keeps up, maybe we'll see articles like in the seventies when the lakes hit an all time high. Which was of course, due to.........gl;obal warming...
What a theory! Just covers all the bases.
The Canadian shield is rising but as I understand it the lake used to be somewhat larger.
I was not aware that 2001 was 85 years ago. The average water level for the month of January this year is exactly the same as it was for the month of January in 2001. 182.98 meters.
"Any suggestions?"
It's leaking. Call a plumber.
"But is it already too late for Lake Superior? I have just returned from a trip to Copper Harbor, Mich. in the Upper Peninsula and was shocked to find the largest of the Great Lakes to be more than two feet lower than before."
Dear Tom,
The global warming experts expect the water level to rise by 4-6 feet. You have nothing to worry about.
Heh. So much for eyeballing by local yokels. The Great Lakes all fluctuate in surface levels. Lake Erie is notorious for this, and is a good deal shallower than Lake Superior. This looks like a story in search of a story on "Global Warming Sunday."
There you go ago, letting facts get in the way of fear mongering and mindless stupidity
Sorry Tony, I called you Tom. my bad. I forgot to mention, since the global warming experts tell us that global warming will be catastrophic, I wouldn't worry too much about the 2 foot reduction in the water level.
I thought global warming was supposed to cause lakes and oceans to rise?
Since Mars is also heating up, should not it now be called "Planetary Warming"
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