The Globe and Mail reports on the Great Lakes this morning noting, “The largest part of the drop in the lakes’ water levels is attributed to climate change: shorter winters and dry, hot summers meant more water evaporating from the lakes than was going back in through precipitation.” While this is another reason to confront global climate change, sadly there is a long list of additional threats that harm the Great Lakes on a daily basis, http://canadians.org/blog/?p=3293. For more on the Council of Canadians campaign to defend the Great Lakes as a commons, public trust and protected bio-region, please see http://canadians.org/greatlakes. Today’s newspaper article – Why the Lakes are slowly getting less Great – is at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-the-lakes-are-slowly-getting-less-great/article4499074/.
