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user posted image rAlex Zelaya: Researchers in Michigan are pointing at new evidence that water levels in the Great Lakes, which are near record low levels, may be shrinking due to global warming. The new study, points out that water levels in the Great Lakes, which supply drinking water to more than 40 million United States and Canadian residents, have fluctuated over thousands of years.

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I always thought that when the water tables rises that means the polar ices are melting. If the water tables are shrinking then the polar ices are increasing. So. Do we have global warming or are they lying and we are going into a mini ice age.

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The water level has dropped but it was even lower 40 years ago ,It fluxuates

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Here is something us locals in Michigan have known for a long time. When it comes to the water in the Great Lakes...

Don't eat anything from it.

Don't swim in it.

Don't drink it.

I wonder what a sunset will look like over Lake Michigan when it dries up and becomes a golf range?

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But surely if the lake does evapourate with the rising heat won't it just end up somewhere else nearby via rain?

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I always thought that when the water tables rises that means the polar ices are melting. If the water tables are shrinking then the polar ices are increasing. So. Do we have global warming or are they lying and we are going into a mini ice age.

That's only for the oceans. Land locked lakes that aren't conected to the ice run off won't rise until there is a connection between them and the polar ice melt. That's how I understand it, but I'm not a climatologist or hydrologist. I'll rely on what they say.

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So the great lakes water levels have fluctuated for thousands of years.....thats cool. like how many years has someone been recording that...because as far as I can remember 1492 was when columbus sailed the ocean blue and thats been a whopping 515 years..hmmmm.

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So the great lakes water levels have fluctuated for thousands of years.....thats cool. like how many years has someone been recording that...because as far as I can remember 1492 was when columbus sailed the ocean blue and thats been a whopping 515 years..hmmmm.

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So the great lakes water levels have fluctuated for thousands of years.....thats cool. like how many years has someone been recording that...because as far as I can remember 1492 was when columbus sailed the ocean blue and thats been a whopping 515 years..hmmmm.

We can "look back in time" by examining things like strata in the geology, fossil records in flood plains, etc. Then again, I'm no geologist, hydrologist, or paleontologist, so I'll rely on what they say.

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We can "look back in time" by examining things like strata in the geology, fossil records in flood plains, etc. Then again, I'm no geologist, hydrologist, or paleontologist, so I'll rely on what they say.

me neither Im just wondering....how do you KNOW. I am very skeptical about global warming. part of my skepticism is fear. I want some ones proof that they have fluctuated for thousands of years.i dont want to read it I just want to know it is there....and that it isn't some "be careful" drivel put in print by global warming fanatics.telling people our water is on the way out...we can't live with out water. I don't want to read lies. and no one built the hypergate yet!

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me neither Im just wondering....how do you KNOW

Well, I learned the basics in college, and for stuff beyond the basics, I'll trust the scientific community, the people who spend their lifetimes studying this stuff. Who am I to argue with them? When the vast majority of the people who spend their lives on a topic have an opinion on that topic, I give it a lot of weight.

Of course, the media always wants an exciting story, and it's sometimes hard to filter the truth from the sensationalism. I don't think the great lakes are going to "go bye bye" during my life time, but it hydrologists say they are dropping and climatologists working witht hem say it's because of global warning, I'm likely to believe them.

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me neither Im just wondering....how do you KNOW. I am very skeptical about global warming. part of my skepticism is fear. I want some ones proof that they have fluctuated for thousands of years.i dont want to read it I just want to know it is there....and that it isn't some "be careful" drivel put in print by global warming fanatics.telling people our water is on the way out...we can't live with out water. I don't want to read lies. and no one built the hypergate yet!

You're on safer ground(pardon the expression if you live in Florida) if you think of it as global climate change. If the change is significant enough to alter the ocean currents and the gulf stream fails it'll be a darn sight colder in Britain for a long while.

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Lake Michigans water table is declining at an alarming rate to say the least. Natural fluctuations are expected and can occur every several decades, but this is different. The Nestle corps. as well as others have set up large-scale, shoreline factories to harvest the water and sell the majority of it over seas...at a rate several times faster than Lakes Michigans natural replenishment cycles can allow for. This is serious stuff...

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