The envirowackjobs somehow manage to outdo their own idiocy, delving for new depths of utter stupidity in search of global hysteria. Thanks to Tim Blair, I saw this Chicken Little story:
Boaters on Lake Superior said the water is so low it appears the world’s largest freshwater lake is disappearing.
The lake, which is about 18 inches below average, has dropped nearly 2.5 feet over the past decade and the entire Great Lakes Basin is seeing reduced water levels, CBS News said Friday.
Oh my God, no! Lake Superior is disappearing! Oh whatever will we do! Sign Kyoto now!
Let’s look at this in perspective, shall we? Lake Superior is the largest fresh-water lake in the world. Its surface area is 31,820 square miles, larger than many states (larger than South Carolina). The average depth is 483 feet, and the maximum depth is 1,333 feet, and during storms, waves often reach 20-30 feet.
Let’s stop there for a minute. Forget math. Just think about it for a minute. The average depth of Lake Superior is 483 feet. Would you be afraid it was drying up if the water level sank 18 inches? But let’s go on.
Lake Superior holds 2,935 cubic miles of water. Why cubic miles and not gallons? Because that’s 3,231,778,805,900,000 gallons. Three quadrillion, 231 trillion, 778 billion, 805 million and 900 thousand gallons. That’s enough water to cover every inch of North and South America with a foot of water.
Think about it. 18 inches. 3,231,778,805,900,000 gallons. Perspective.
The real joke here is that this idiotic story appeared in the “science” section. This, my friends, is the problem with majoring in the liberal arts.