GIBE Article - Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes

Environment + Energy

❐ Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes

2019 Jul 19

Waves on Lake Superior crash against the Duluth, Minn. waterfront Sept. 10, 2014. Randen Pederson, CC BY

Over the past 20 years, Great Lakes water levels have gone from sustained multiyear lows to multiyear highs. Climate change is accelerating the transition between dry phases and wet phases.