"This is not happening. Smirk. This is, um, just more latte-drinking liberal spew. Smirk. Why I'll have you know that I am just as comfortable as can be in my palatial 1% Republican Palace. So there you have it. Pay no attention to this Grim Reality Climate Change News. Just keep listening to me (smirk) and watching Fox (R), and keep on voting Republican (1%) and this will all go away. Trust me." - Rush 'Draft-Dodger' Limpaugh (R - Propagandist, inc.)

A control structure at the outlet to Lake Huron could restore the levels, but it is controversial. The lake level would then be a political issue.

What does that have to do with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, I wonder?

And then, that photo is pretty famous, really. I lived in California for most of my life.

I remember on the old Northern Exposure when they'd show Grosse Pointe (when Maggie would visit her parents) and they had mountains. Uhm, no, that isn't Michigan. ROFL.

There are some smaller mountains in northern Michigan, but not like those.

Here's a current, local pic as you wish...easy to produce a boatload more...



In this Nov. 16, 2012 photo, a stranded pontoon boat is docked at the eastern end of Portage Lake in the village of Onekama, Mich. Unusually low water levels on the Great Lakes are causing problems for boaters in small harbor towns such as Onekama, which is linked to Lake Michigan by a man-made channel.

As Great Lakes plummet, towns try to save harbors November 27, 2012

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/11/27/environment/great-lakes-plummet-harbor-towns/

you were talking about. I live on the Mississippi river, and have seen the low levels. I'm near a lake that is drying up. There are plenty of dramatic photos that can be used. If you use photos that are not anywhere near the subject of your discussion, you lose an opportunity.

The Salton Sea has nothing to do with what you are talking about.

But I will replace the photo of that environmental travesty, with a current photo of the Environmental Travesty du Jour.

Yours for reality (most of the time), B.

It's a below-sea-level salt lake. Its level has been fluctuating for a very, very long time.

Lake been gulping Ag Chem Runoff up the wazoo...

http://isun.blogs.mydesert.com/2012/11/01/federal-lawmakers-dont-put-money-where-the-salton-sea-is/

The sea, California’s largest lake, is slowly dying as its salinity increases. Its shrinking shores are expected to be increasingly exposed

If it gets dry enough it's possible the lakes *could* become closed basins.

That would be unpleasant.

So long as the U.S. economy remains capable, I think the construction of major control structures to regulate lake levels is inevitable.

I live in Michigan and can see this, and a family member who also lives here is among the deniers!

It is finally getting really cold here where my kids need hats and gloves at recess, and it's the end of November. We usually start getting cold days like this by Halloween. And it isn't just this year - it's been the past several years. Things are definitely changing. But when we FINALLY start having some snow, the climate change deniers will be on Facebook saying, "Yeah and we have global warming. LOL." As if we wouldn't get cold in winter in Michigan regardless of whether there is some global warming. They won't believe it until it's warm in January and the lakes are gone.

DES MOINES, IOWA Scientists are saying that due to climate change caused by greenhouse gases, Iowans should brace themselves for more bad weather like the 2012 drought.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57552058/iowa-scientists-climate-change-caused-the-drought/