1.       Great Lakes Losing Water, Climate Change a Significant

By: Eric Justian

http://www.enn.com/climate/article/46006

In this article, it’s talking about the Great Lakes and how they are a record 26 inches lower than normal. This causes higher prices in iron, ore, grain, and coal. For every inch that the water drops 100 tons have to be left behind on the dock because the freighter cannot carry them all. Over 160 million tons of good are carried on the Great Lakes per year which controls a lot of our industrial trading. When the freights cannot carry all of the cargo and have to leave some behind, the cost rises on the product because it has to wait to be delivered which causes the price that the consumer pays go up also. Human induced climate change is the main problem in this situation. The Great Lakes are evaporating at a fast rate and it has lost 71 percent of their ice cover since 1973.