Who Pulled The Plug On Lake Superior?

From: Minnesota Monthly | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Gihring, Tim | Copyright information

Way our greatest lake is heating up the climate-change debate

SINCE 1906, an employee of the hydroelectric power plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, has walked down to the thermometer at the water-intake gate every day at precisely 8 a.m. and recorded the temperature of Lake Superior.

It is one of the longest-running records of water temperature in the world. But when Jay Austin, a young scientist at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, crunched this data last year in a routi...

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