Parker, A. (2015) Rebuttal to: ENGE-D-13-00994R2 "Modelling of lake level under climate change conditions: Lake Purrumbete in southeastern Australia" by Yihdego et al. (2015). Environmental Earth Sciences, 74 (6). pp. 5453-5456.

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[Extract] Yihdego et al. (2015) claim that many lakes in Western Victoria, in particular Lake Purrumbete, have been dry, or at their lowest level in recorded history, because of global warming. However, measured rainfall around Lake Purrumbete has been fairly stable and actually increasing, while the temperatures have been similarly stable since the end of the 1800s.

In Ballarat there is Lake Wendouree, which was a swamp that was converted into an artificial lake. The very shallow water lake hosted the rowing and canoeing events during the 1956 Olympic Games. During its history, Lake Wendouree dried up twice: in 1969 and again between 2006 and 2011, (incidentally this time longer but coinciding with diversion of water towards a nearby golf course); however, since 2011 the lake has been full of water.

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