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Comment: Seven years ago, when Lake Michigan was at record low levels, Al Gore, Senator Dick Durbin and many others blamed climate change for evaporating the lake. Now climate change is blamed for high water level necessitating an emergency declaration. See our article on that linked here.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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I’ve raced sailboats on Lake Michigan for nearly 30 years and Lake Michigan/Lake Huron water levels have historically varied from year to year and decade to decade. We were at a historic low about a dozen years ago and many of the largest boats couldn’t dock in the harbor at Mackinac Island for risk of going aground. The lake level varies due to snowfall, rainfall, evaporation rates due to winter surface ice cover, evaporation due to variations in summer heat, water flow rate out of Lake Superior (which also varies from the same set of weather conditions) and water flow… Read more »
love how they have made finding historical data now near impossible on the NOAA page… what the hell
http://lre-wm.usace.army.mil/ForecastData/GLBasinConditions/LTA-GLWL-Graph.pdf
took me forever to find this where before it was right there on the main noaa great lakes page
The Lake was about like this in 1986. I guess that Climate Change is what Dad called weather.
As usual, you are better on history than me. I said it another article that I remembered the late seventies when the lake was peaking, but it was indeed 1986 or so. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-20-mn-3042-story.html Or maybe it was both.
Turns out it was both the late 70s and late 80s, and many points before that. See this chart showing historical Lake Michigan water levels. https://sewicoastalresilience.org/lake-michigan-august-water-levels/
You deniers see only patterns in the historical fluctuation of water levels of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes have been within half a meter of their current levels at least 5 times in the last 100 years.
I, as a true believer, see only CLIMATE CHANGE OMG!