Lake Superior Losing Water: After Effects of El Nino or Evil Rampaging SUVs?

Deep enough to hold the combined water in all the other Great Lakes and with a surface area as large as South Carolina, Lake Superior's size has lent it an aura of invulnerability.

But the mighty Superior is losing water and getting warmer, worrying those who live near its shores, scientists and companies that rely on the lake for business.

The changes to the lake could be signs of climate change, although scientists aren't sure.

Superior's level is at its lowest point in eight decades and will set a record this fall if, as expected, it dips three more inches. Meanwhile, the average water temperature has surged 4.5 degrees since 1979, significantly above the 2.7-degree rise in the region's air temperature during the same period.

That's no small deal for a freshwater sea that was created from glacial melt as the Ice Age ended and remains chilly in all seasons.

https://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/03/superior.puzzle.ap/index.html

Ask Al Gore. I'm sure it's because of the SUV's.

Or maybe the war in Iraq has something to do with it.

well it'd have to be climate change what else could cause such evaporation? i too know of its affects, i live in "outback" australia and we are currently experiencing the worst dought in living memory, crops are failing and people aer losing their jobs, we need to change our ways or our future isnt going to look too good

All the lakes are actually losing water. Lake Superios is one of the worst because Canada pumps water OUT of it. All the lakes do the same, but the other lakes' water levels are closely monitored and so are the amounts of water pumped out. It is true, however that climate changes affected it. There has been very little rainfall anywhere in the US, which would cause any lake to dry up.