Where is the ice? Great Lakes ice cover is nearly non-existent and reaches 50-year record low
Where is the ice? Great Lakes ice cover is nearly non-existent and reaches 50-year record low
A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years.
A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years.
On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the Great Lakes were covered in ice, the lowest on record for the date, and well below the historical average of nearly 10% for this point in winter, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).
This year’s missing ice in the Great Lakes adds to a growing trend of winter ailments plaguing the US, from dwindling snowpacks in the West to an ongoing snow drought in the Northeast, all becoming more common due to warming temperatures from the climate crisis.
Weird, seems like maybe we've destroyed the climate. Who could have predicted this?
111The rich and corporations are killing our planet. They don't care if we die and people would rather save a hundred bucks on taxes than vote in their best interest.
83I'm guessing you don't use fossil fuels?
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Scientists 40 years ago - "The Earth is going to start warming and it's gonna cause issues"
40 years later
Issues - Exist
The media - "wHaT iS hApPeNiNg!?!?!?!?"
50Scientists 40 years ago - "The Earth is going to start warming and it's gonna cause issues"
40 years later
Issues - Exist
The media - "wHaT iS hApPeNiNg!?!?!?!?"
A bunch of idiots online: " it's just El ninio. I like warm weather."
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Fellas, it's been good to know ya.
34Some more than others.
8The Edmund Fitzgerald arrives.
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Next year, we’ll probably see catastrophic algal blooms, as the cold at least killed off a lot of it. Next year, it will have a massive head start. Microcystins and hypoxic water will kill wildlife and poison the drinking water.
27I can't pretend to predict the future but I imagine scientists everywhere are in a perpetual state of "oh fuck. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Oh fuck." Waiting to see what happens and how bad it's gonna be.
It's gonna be bad. Real bad
We reap what we sow and we been sowing this for decades.
18This current melt is also due to localized factors, like the El Nino event we are going through, making the climate-change-induced ice reduction greatly exacerbated. Ice on the Great Lakes has been declining for 50 years.
Just as no Congressperson should be bringing in snow alls to refute climate change, we should also keep in mind that weather and climate are vastly different things.
Remember to bring this up in a couple years when Republicans are talking about how the ice is back so climate change isn't real.
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But I always sort my recycling!
25I stopped drinking milk!
Good thing Taylor swift is allowed to fucking take her jet to a city 30 mins away though. 🙄
23As you should, but that's attempting to solve a different environmentally devistating issue.
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Don't have kids
25I’ll buy as many baby goats as I god damn please
24Can't afford 'm anyway.
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Maybe if companies do drive more green washing to avoid regulation, it will totally help. /s
24I never thought that in 10 years, we'd go from one of the coldest UP winters I'd ever seen to one of the warmest. This was my first Christmas and New Years in 30 years where I didn't see snow on the ground. It's sad to see.
I worry how this will mess with the following seasons. With the lack of ice, the lake levels drop faster because the water can evaporate. Pair that with liquid water's darker color, means it will heat up faster and evaporate that much more water.
The lack of snow means we'll have lower spring runoff than normal. So the lakes won't get replenished as spring arrives. This could send us into drought conditions really quickly.All of this will lead to plummeting lake levels. I wonder if it'll reach the levels from 2007-2012.
20I’m in the LP and my snow tires haven’t had any use all season yet. This shit is serious
Edit: we just got our first winter weather advisory of the season!!! What coincidence lol
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Nothing to see here, Citizen. Move it along, now. Theres a Prius out there with a smug Globalist at the wheel... Don't you have some coal you should be rolling?
12Meanwhile, She'll just won Advertising awards for their GReEn EnErGy ad$.
Whata time to be alive lol
11Oh well, did all i could afford and the government demanded more by increasing the cost of living...pushing me in the reds with an employer that can't afford to increase the wage.
Good luck y'all...i just stuck around to watch it all burn, so maybe i do get lucky in the end.
8if your employer can't afford to pay a living wage, the business should not exist, tho he is most likely just lying to you for those record profits.
also, it wouldn't really impact you if rich people stopped taking private jets everywhere, and cruise ships shut down...
4Show me a business that's actually doing well within cycling range and i'll probably apply for a job there, if it's within my skillset.
My current job is far too boring and i hate having to "look busy" for 6h a day because i'd rather use that time to work on myself, interests and skills.
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most of you are too chickenshit to put the heads of those responsible on a stake and that's why we're where we're at.
-21True, I am too 'chickenshit' to go on my own to a person who almost definitely has multiple armed security guards to kill them and put their head on a stake. Why haven't you done it yet? Too 'chickenshit?'
19Do you think The Purge is real or something? One day we can just kill people that deserve it?
6a society can collectively do whatever it wants when it sets its mind to a task. if you don't do it first, they're gonna do it to you. don't be a victim.
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