B Ozanne
EF5
The article failed to mention that the Great Lakes are connected in a "series circuit" so this must mean that Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake St.Clair, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario will also dry up magically. But in Chicago, I guess that "small" detail was overlooked. Alarmist journalism for certain. Better jump on that asteroid wagon next !!
That's not true. Only Lake Michigan and Huron are connected at the same elevation. So if Michigan were to dry up Huron would also have to dry up. Well, I suppose they'd split apart at some point.
Every other lake is at a different elevation. Superior is the highest, and Ontario is the lowest. So its not one big lake connected by flat water cuts. Some of them involve significant elevation change.