Climate change experts predict drop in Lake Erie water levels

[Algorem]

(looking at these articles,it looks like the Ministry of Propaganda,while allowing global warming to be presented as a fact,has ordered all propaganda franchises to 'accentuate the positive'-

"allowing water to resume the natural coastal circulation that has become blocked by structures, experts said." ;

"allowing a languid, unspoiled shoreline to emerge where freshwater waves now roll.
"...)

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/15106456.htm

CLEVELAND - The newest update to a Lake Erie management plan predicts global warming will lead to a steep drop in water levels over the next 64 years, a change that could cause the lake's surface area to shrink by up to 15 percent.

The drop could undo years of shoreline abuse by allowing water to resume the natural coastal circulation that has become blocked by structures, experts said.

Updated annually, the plan is required by the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. It is developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Canada and state and local governments with help from the shipping industry, sports-fishing operators, farm interests, academics and environmental organizations.

The newest update addresses for the first time, when, where and how the shoreline will be reshaped. It says the water temperature of Lake Erie has increased by one degree since 1988 and predicts the lake's level could fall about 34 inches. It also says the other Great Lakes will lose water...



Warming will change shoreline, scientists say
New analysis predicts global rise in temperatures will decrease Erie's size

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1153643473324350.xml&coll=2

Sunday, July 23, 2006
Bill Sloat
Plain Dealer Reporter

Cincinnati -- As the Earth's climate slowly heats up under global-warming forecasts, Lake Erie is expected to become shallower and smaller, allowing a languid, unspoiled shoreline to emerge where freshwater waves now roll.

Aesthetically, Ohio might come out ahead, with a lot more natural charm on its North Coast.

That depiction of a dramatically altered Great Lake -- shrun ken by about one- sixth its current size -- has started to jell in the vast amounts of government data generated in the United States and Canada about some of the most likely im pacts of climate change.

By late this century, there could be long stretches of marsh, soggy prairies, unscarred beaches and, eventually, thick, leafy forests on the newly emerged lands ringing the lake, researchers affiliated with the U.S. and Canadian governments predict in a new environmental report...


Warming trend to change Erie
Sunday, July 23, 2006

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1153643450324350.xml&coll=2

Researchers predict global warming will prompt dramatic changes to Lake Erie and the Great Lakes region over the next 50 years. Lake Erie is the world's 12th largest lake and has 871 miles of shoreline in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario.

Among their findings for Lake Erie:

Its water level will drop between 6 inches and 32 inches (down as much as 39 inches by 2070) .


Average water temperature will rise 2 degrees to 38 degrees Fahrenheit.,,







(this one maybe slipped by)
Global warming could fry Ohio wine industry

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1153643473324350.xml&coll=2

Friday, July 14, 2006
Shaheen Samavati
Plain Dealer Reporter

Ahigher number of scorchingly hot summer days caused by global warming could squash Ohio's $75 million wine industry before the end of this century, researchers say.

The most-tolerant premium wine grapes can't stand more than 14 days of extreme heat, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate researcher at Purdue University and author of a study released this week.

But by the latter part of the century, there will be an estimated 30 more days per year when temperatures climb past 95 degrees in northern Ohio, Diffenbaugh said. In some southern parts of the state, 60 days a year could be that hot.

The study predicts similar scenarios in most of the nation's premium wine-grape growing regions, including much of California, the top wine-producing state...

[msongs]

1. pssst! "freshwater waves" are caused by WIND not water level nt

[Pierzin]

2. Lake Chad and th Aral Sea have virtually dissappeared!!

I dont know who posted it, but someone here posted an article by Nature about Global Warming and how Lake Chad, once the worlds sixth largest lake, has almost dissappeared.
ANd what happened to the Aral Sea? It was once at twice as large as Lake Superior, where is it now? Complete with a fishing industry, etc etc, and now covered in sand.

[mom cat]

4. Anyone who would try to put a silver lining on such a tornado cloud

is stark raving mad.

[Dead_Parrot]

5. That's not climate change, though

Both of them have suffered primarily from having their tributaries diverted to supply water for crop irrigation, rather than climate change. (Humans are adaptable, and can fuck the environment in lots of ways at once)

IIRC, the Aral is actually growing again - some of the rivers have been diverted back to their original courses, undoing some of the damage.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Less water to pollute - Freeze over faster in winter