claim: recent record-low water levels in lake michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our great lakes."
author: richard durbin
evidence_1: nov 20, 2012 ... this was most evident on lakes michigan and huron, where lake levels dropped  to less than two inches (4 cm) above record lows and 28 inches (71 cm) below  the long-term .... “some of our recent work challenges the standard paradigm that  more ice cover means less evaporation,” lenters told me.
evidence_2: upper great lakes study board is using lake level projection data to inform and  redefine water level regulations for .... climate change: annual average air and  water temperatures are rising and future climate models ... addressed with new  research: for example there is limited direct measurement of over-lake  evaporation.
evidence_3: aug 20, 2013 ... experts have been quoted blaming the weather for low lake levels in everything  from this blog to the new york times and in nbc news reports, but as described  in detail in a previous post about how climate change and variability drive water  levels on the great lakes, just blaming the weather is not the full ...
evidence_4: while there is no direct evidence of global warming based upon u.s. army corps  of engineers lake level analyses, there are other indications that climate change  is ... the loss of great lakes ice has allowed more water to evaporate in winter,  resulting in heavier lake effect snow near the shore, and lower lake levels.
evidence_5: jul 12, 2015 ... the great lakes are the world's largest source of freshwater, and some of those  lakes have experienced a decade and a half of below-average levels. lake  michigan lost 4 feet of water in the late 1990s, and its levels remained low for an  unusually long period. "it just stayed below average for 15 years, ...