USA & Canada Shipping Ban Extended 2 Weeks Over Bloated Great Lakes

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https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mlive.com/news/2020/02/st-lawrence-seaway-shipping-delayed-by-high-water-on-the-great-lakes.html%3foutputType=amp

 

 The Great Lakes which have been gradually rising since 2012/2013 have gotten so high and bloated that a temporary ban on ships coming in from sea up St. Lawrence River and into Great Lakes to offload Cargo in USA and Canada had to be put in place

 

 

The ban was put in place because outflows of water were so strong that they posed safety risks and so a ban was put in place due to expire at the end of this month

 

The ban will be extended by at least 2 weeks to allow dams to be fully open to drain as much water as possible and they are hoping levels will also drop a bit if spring happens to be warmer or drier than usual

 

Unfortunately they admit the ban could potentially have to be extended again. Water levels do not have to return to normal to reopen cargo routes but they do have to drop below a certain threshold to meet safety concerns

 

Experts warn the trillions of gallons of surplus water in the great lakes may require years of lower precipitation or warmer weather to increase evaporation to return to normal

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@Doot 

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When will the economic sector realize that fighting climate change is not to be "against" economic prosperity, but rather it's a piece of the great puzzle of a stable society?

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9 minutes ago, thierryrreiht said:

When will the economic sector realize that fighting climate change is not to be "against" economic prosperity, but rather it's a piece of the great puzzle of a stable society?

Agreed especially long term

 

The current Great Lakes problem with global warming is filled with irony tho

 

Generally the concern with global warming has been fresh water around the world slowly drying up and the same was happening in the great lakes when they hit a record low in 2012 after gradually falling since the 1980s and they expected the trend to continue in fact Cargo ships suffered with that issue as well cuz low levels meant they couldn't load as much cargo or else the bottom of the ships would scrape the most shallow points

 

But suddenly the opposite started to happen 7 years ago in the opposite extreme

 

They say it's because the warmer winters have caused air to be more damp and humid and less dry (so evaporation has decreased in winter despite less ice coverage) and spring precipitation has surged more than offsetting the hotter and driers summers

 

The result is that in the last 7 years suddenly the pattern took a sharp swing so now instead of too little water the great lakes keep getting more and more bloated

 

Experts still debate if this could be a decade aberation in the trend and that a longer term drop will return or if this is new long term trend

 

It's weird how when temperatures crossed a certain threshold the patterns changed in a way where 1 problem swung into the exact opposite problem. That's what makes climate change so dangerous. We don't even know for sure what changes will happen. The great Lakes having too much water is an idea people would laugh at 8 years ago

 

This kind of debunks the idea that we can easily prepare for global warming by adapting to predicted changes ahead of time. The Great Lakes just proved the predicted changes sometimes are not even correct

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Another day closer to the end. 

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1 hour ago, Doot said:

Another day closer to the end. 

The pessimism