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Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter
cnsnews.com ^ | 2/11/14 | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 02/12/2014 11:26:53 AM PST by Ragnar54

(CNSNews.com) – Lake Superior hasn’t completely frozen over in two decades.

But an expert on Great Lakes ice says there’s a “very high likelihood” that the three-quadrillion-gallon lake will soon be totally covered with ice thanks to this winter’s record-breaking cold.

The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994. ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; climatefraud; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; gorebullwarming; greatlakes; homemadelemonaid; lakesuperior
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To: Ragnar54

I like your thinking! I’ll gladly chip in!


21 posted on 02/12/2014 11:59:03 AM PST by Howie66 (John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
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To: Eye of Newt

Im a burning bush.
I’m a bleeding volcano.

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22 posted on 02/12/2014 11:59:54 AM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Expert” = Former Spurt under pressure.


23 posted on 02/12/2014 12:00:20 PM PST by Howie66 (John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
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To: TexasCajun
In 1984 we were living in Marquette and my husband bought a boat. In May we had to drive south for him to be able to check it out because Lake Superior still had ice. It can and has snowed every month of the year there. During the Winter, it is common for it to snow every day. That said, I think this is the coldest year ever. I have never been so glad to be south of the Mason-Dixon.
24 posted on 02/12/2014 12:02:05 PM PST by GILTN1stborn ( #rememberbenghazi #extortion17 #impeachobama)
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To: Jim Robinson

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25 posted on 02/12/2014 12:04:28 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: Ragnar54

Actually, and somewhat paradoxically, the world’s levels of sea ice have been dropping in the past couple of months. Last year, they were actually above the 40-year average, but they recently dropped below it. Maybe it’s because the extreme cold weather has shifted south and the Arctic sea ice hasn’t expanded as much as during a normal winter.


26 posted on 02/12/2014 12:04:29 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: DeaconRed

Ah, a philosphy doctorate in ice.


27 posted on 02/12/2014 12:10:21 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

see my tagline.


28 posted on 02/12/2014 12:18:01 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: GILTN1stborn
I don't know how the northern part of the country can even function snow and iced in for weeks, months at time.

Talk about cabin-fever!!

29 posted on 02/12/2014 12:28:02 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 4yearlurker

Ah yes the irony. To each his own I suppose.


30 posted on 02/12/2014 12:38:32 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

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31 posted on 02/12/2014 12:43:13 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Paladin2

What is that? Are Satan’s minions pow-wowwing with the Children of the Corn?


32 posted on 02/12/2014 12:48:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Colorado: the Maryland of the Mountain West)
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To: Fido969

“You have to graduate from junior ice school, first.”

I tried Ice School briefly, but when they made us sing the school song every day before classes, I couldn’t take it and dropped out.

Please....no more “Ice Ice Baby”!


33 posted on 02/12/2014 12:48:55 PM PST by Zack Attack
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To: Ragnar54

“The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994. ...”

I thought the largest freshwater lake in the world was Lake Baikal in Siberia.

According to Wikipedia: Lake Baikal is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world’s unfrozen surface fresh water,[4][5] and at 1,642 m (5,387 ft),[1] the deepest.[6] It is also among the clearest[7] of all lakes, and thought to be the world’s oldest lake[8] at 25 million years.[9] It is the 7th largest lake in the world by surface area.

I love it when journalist check their facts before writing an article.


34 posted on 02/12/2014 12:54:31 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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35 posted on 02/12/2014 1:09:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Colorado: the Maryland of the Mountain West)
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To: Ragnar54
The latest warmist theory is that warming has "paused" because the wind is pushing the warm water below the surface. Perhaps the warmists will scuba dive to find the warm water in Lake Superior.

I actually chilled my beer in Lake Superior in late August. This warm water being pushed below by winds is a crock. More sophistry by the global warming cult to try to make their fallacious theory fit the actual data.

36 posted on 02/12/2014 1:10:58 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: TexasCajun
I don't know how the northern part of the country can even function snow and iced in for weeks, months at time. Talk about cabin-fever!!

We function in different ways, but we do function. Sure, some of us love to do 360s on the highway, some of us have frozen fish tosses, and some of us (but I will so NEVER!) even do the Polar Bear jumps.

Me, I decided to just embrace this winter which will be with us until probably after Easter. I found my cross-country ski boots, treated them for aging, and had my figure skates professionally sharpened. Why, you ask? Well, I figure if I can spend 40 minutes in 7 degree weather, with wind, to teach our dolt dog to heal in our neighborhood, I can spend 40 minutes doing something fun!

And we also have the Winter Olympics to watch...we feel so Superior to Sochi, because Sochi is so frikkin' warm! (we mask our jealousy well, doncha think?)

37 posted on 02/12/2014 1:30:25 PM PST by blu
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To: The Great RJ
I actually chilled my beer in Lake Superior in late August. This warm water being pushed below by winds is a crock. More sophistry by the global warming cult to try to make their fallacious theory fit the actual data.

I think the warmist theory was for the oceans, especially the Pacific. As others have pointed out, it's crap.

38 posted on 02/12/2014 1:30:44 PM PST by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: The Great RJ

lakes “flip” - once in the spring and once in the fall - having to do with the epilimnia and hypolimnia and water/temp density - Cold water is on top in the winter - warmer is below at the thermocline...in the spring - warmer comes back to the top - quite dramatically as whole lakes become very turbid for a period - I know this because fishing for trout obligates a knowledge of this


39 posted on 02/12/2014 1:31:49 PM PST by Revelation 911
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To: blu
You would probably say the same thing about our heat & humidity in July & August, even September here on the Gulf Coast.

We really can't stand it either, just used to it. ...always in search of the AC.

40 posted on 02/12/2014 1:44:32 PM PST by TexasCajun
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