Why are the Great Lakes water level going up even if there is global warming?

Question

doesn't global warming evaporates water? i dont understand?

Answer 1

great lakes water level is going down, but if it was going up it would be because warm water takes up more volume than colder water.

Answer 2

Record snow in the mountains

Answer 3

Global warming does not evaporate water. It heats up the water and causes the snow to melt, and the ice bergs up in the North and South Pole are slowly melting/falling apart and melting in the oceans.

Answer 4

What global warming?  The last few years the Great Lakes were down some 30 inches.  Last year we had a decent amount of snow.  This year was the forth snowiest winter in Michigan.  The rain and meltwater will help raise the water levels again.

Answer 5

Going up since when? Last I checked, regardless of global warming, the level of the great lakes has been undergoing a downward trend. If it is higher than last year, that's great news, but shouldn't be considered to mean that it is a permanent situation. The great lakes are really important, and need to be kept safe.

Answer 6

The water level in the great lakes has been dropping - see below:

The Great Lakes region has experienced a different climatic

regime for the past decade (1997-2007). Along with increasing air temperatures and evaporation, the lakes suffered fromdecreasing precipitation and ice cover. This  decadal changein the hydrologic cycle resulted in decreasing water levels; with Lake Superior, particularly, setting a new record low level for September 2007 and Lakes Michigan and Huron teetering around their record low in December 2007.

The enitre article is here:

www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/lake...

Answer 7

due to global warming the ice and Glaciers are melting at high rate so the water level of all lakes are increasing

Answer 8

It's just seasonal Janey.  This is the time of the spring thaw and higher rainfall.  The levels will drop quickly once the water stored as winter snow has all melted.

Answer 9

Ummmm....most of the Great Lakes are down slightly this year.  The past few years they've all had noticably lower water levels.  I don't know why you think the water levels are going up.

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008...

Answer 10

Heretic the age for the great lakes is only 10000 years, since the end of the last iceage

Answer 11

It's probably going down.  Chemtrail polymers are really good at drying things up.

Answer 12

No, Global warming will not just evaporate water, the earth has a very dynamic system of weather and climate, what global warming does is feed that dynamo more and more energy.\

we don't say global warming no more, it's glonbal climate change now

Answer 13

Rain and run off, don't worry about it till you see the O2 levels do something weird. But it has been fairly stable for a few million years.

Thanks (antarcticice) it was more of a reference to the Biological era, and should have been 2 billion and not million. "my bad".