With levels at their lowest since observations began in 1918, it’s beginning to look as if evaporation due to climate change may be the culprit
by HENRY HENGEVELD
During a mid-October family gathering, the conversation inevitably turned to the weather. After all, fall temperatures have been unusually warm, and it has been so dry.
My brother-in-law noted that the water level in his pond, which he had dug on his property adjacent to the Bay of Quinte some 40 years ago, was now the lowest he had ever seen. He solemnly declared that something unusual was going on! The same sentiment appears to have been echoed in many households and boardrooms around the Great Lakes this fall.