Lake Superior Disappearing

Lake Superior reached a new record low (previously set in 1926) last month, according to GlobeAndMail.com, due to recent drought and possibly some sort of long-term climate change. They had published a previous article about the low water levels and warming of the lake. All of the Great Lakes have been decreasing since the late 1990's, the article says, but Superior is the worst, at some places changing the shoreline by as much as 50 feet, an earlier USAToday article says.

NOAA had warned in August that this new record was possible. NOAA has a short-term and a long-term graph but neither contain all the data. You can read more articles about the new record on Google News, including some conspiracy theories.

A view of Lake Superior's Keweenaw Bay from Baraga, Mich., is shown in this June 28, 2007, file photo. Authorities said that the level on the lake, the deepest and coldest of the Great Lakes that together hold nearly 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water, reached a near-record low in September. Lake Superior has plummeted over the past year and has been below its long-term average level for a decade _ the longest continuous low-water spell in its history. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File)