Low level of Lake Superior raises concern and costs - are you concerned?

They fail to provide us with a comparision of how low we currently are compared to the record on hand. Are we an inch? A foot? A yard? When was the record? I'll presume it was lowest during the 1920-30's. How long have we been measuring the water level and sofisticated did we measure it back then? This article seems to want to add to the global warming "hysteria" by not being clear on the details.

Yes, it will cause economic trouble to the shippers and the people providing the goods to be shipped.

Not sure I have the answers for that Gary. Did you spot the resources? It made me kinda curious, and look:

Great Lakes Water Level Data for the Duluth station via the NOAA

and

Long Term Average Min-Max Water Levels from the Army Corps of Engineers. You're right - it was low in the mid-1920s.

Pretty interesting stuff. It is understandable why the shipping industry is crossing its fingers for a short-term turnaround. If they can regain the rain (being 7 inches short this year hasn't been the greatest for the lake level) it might happen.

We're close to the end of the month, - "While the lake stands at an all-time low level, the record won't be set until record keepers calculate a low average level at the end of the month."

I've been watching those water levels nervously for the past four months, ever since our monster rock appeared and felt I had to write about it. The Lake, The Rock, and the Need to Take a Break . We now have a whole new beach that connects a cove beach with our ledge rock. It seems almost impossible that this huge body of water could drop so precipitously so quickly. Makes the work of the Joint International Corps to protect the Great Lakes important indeed.

And it's all tied in with the Trees.
Reforestation NOW - particularly in areas of factory-soil toxicity and DU radiation dust-prone areas. Time to get cookin' on toxic area/air healings.

Thanks for your comments on Lake Superior - all of you. I have a kayak company on Madeline Island, and although in a way it is good for business to have warmer summer weather, it is very disturbing that we will probably never have another ice road from Madeline to Bayfield. 40 years ago, there was an ice road for 90 days, but now, looking at the recorded ice road days over the past 40 years, we are now down to 0. Was the winter of 2004, the last ice road? It was great to bicycle on the ice (with studded tires!) or drive to Bayfield on the ice.
The low water level may be good for my basement, but, yes Beryl, rocks are appearing all over the place, and Lake Superior's drainage area is very limited. We must turn this global warming around, and very soon!
We will be kayaking to Bayfield tomorrow, to accompany a friend who is, yes, swimming from Madline to Bayfield. The water is, of course, cold (but it should be frozen). Let us work for change in 2007.

eh it is really bad here in Texas..most of the lakes are 15 feet below normal levels...makes for crappy fishing and no boating.

Our water seems to be staying lower than normal here too. When we get days of rains, it will raise but it is down really low the next day. Weird

Global Warming caused by humans? Why did most of the earth's warming in the last century happen before 1940?

The United Nations, not my favorite institution, maybe yours, came out with study a few weeks ago that the earth's water levels increased 7" in the last century, not 2' as Al Gore stated in his movie. Kinda a big difference, huh?

Global warming is happening. There will be benefits as well as problems to this change. Look to the global economic properity of the 1300's.

The political left is using global warming to scare people into accepting more socialism, especially trying tp push more socialism on the United States.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009308.html

There's a start.

Why would Al Gore inflate the numbers? That's what I mean by "Hysteria". Lots of loose "facts" or people accepting Al Gore's word as "fact".

Global warming is happening. I believe so. Then why has most of the temperature rise happened before 1940? The 1300's were a time when the grew good grapes in England because of the increase in temperature. The world prospered because of the warmer temperatures and the ability to provide food. It lasted for a few hundred years, then it cooled off.

Because if people were so concerned about the environment they would have made the Kyoto Protocal to include China,India, and Indonesia, the nations that have the most "dirty" manufacturing and the largest growing heavy industrial base. China is one the most unregulated and poluting countries, why aren't we concerned over China?

Left leaning people want to saddle the United State's economy and bring it in line with Europe and Global warming is there tool. They've come to their own conculusion that there is a "concensous" and want a political tool to further their ways. Left leaning people hate it when you try to argue the global warming debate. The left uses one of the favorite tactics in trying to "shout down" any conflicting views.