Envisioning Threats to Great Lakes Shorelines | Great Lakes Now

[@JimFry]

Long-term solution? Don't be so foolish to think waterfront property is guaranteed to remain or that others should fund risky choices in selecting your geographic preferenes.

[@lumoptikinc.1027]

This is an irresponsible and unnecessary scare article. The Great Lakes water levels have been going up and down about 4' to 6' for over 4,000 years. The USGS published a study called "Lake-Level Variability and Water Availability in the Great Lakes". It shows that the Great Lakes have gone through many (hundreds) of variability cycles of 4' to 6' over the past ~4,000 years. What we are seeing is normal variability. It is NOT a climate emergency of any kind. I live on Lake Michigan and care very much about the health of the Lakes--but this kind of article is just plain irresponsible.

[@markk985]

Agreed.

[@SaintoTube]

Why does insurance agencies and policy makers let rich people build so close to places like this?,

[@sunsetusa6926]

Bottom line, the homes are BUILT ON A SEAWALL. In Duluth, where is the revetment on the lakeside of their property? There is none. The previous high lake levels never exceeded 100 year flood plain. I work on 100 year flood plain on Lake Michigan. It was still 3-4 feet below that datum. Give me a break, trying to make people panic that its global warming, when they just want the insured to pick up their tab for their stupid choice of living too close to the lake. The past 20 years have seen a boom in new homes built below dunes on the lakeside, below seawalls, building revetment that destroys the beaches, we don't deserve to pay for their destructive behavior. Let them sink.

[@cub1009]

Time to start pumping water from the great lakes to California.

[@zane43]

This is gaslighting. Duluth is 700 ft. above sea level. The lake level is controlled by a series of locks which is governed by an international commission. If you think it's too high, then go talk to them.

[@DS-nv8bi]

gfy

[@rodneyramos9101]

It's not that change is happening. It's the "rate" of change. You're seeing 4,000 years of change happen in decades.

[@lumoptikinc.1027]

Not true.