Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/climate/page/17/)
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A Wisconsin forest was among the test sites where scientists found that warming temperatures will more rapidly release carbon dioxide stored in soils.
Such an increase of the greenhouse gas could make the climate heat even faster.
A mild winter left Lake Erie nearly ice-free. On the first day of spring last week, a NASA satellite snapped a picture of the southern Great Lakes region and showed sediment clouding up the shallow lake. The colors in the image are accurate. The tan colored-water swirling around the shoreline is sediment rushing in from streams and rivers. The warm winter brought more rainfall than snow, so there was increased runoff.
It’s been a weird winter for Michiganders used to a lot of snow, ice and cold.
The mild winter has been a money-saver for some and business as usual for others.
Michigan’s mild winter could mean more deer in the Upper Peninsula this year. Experts say unusually warm weather could make more food sources available.
When the U.S. Senate abandoned greenhouse gas-curbing legislation, they also pulled the plug on 1.9 million new clean energy jobs, according to a report released by a coalition of business groups.
The Great Lakes states total of 481,000 jobs is around the nationwide average for people making new requests for unemployment benefits each week.
Deer mice once crossed the Great Lakes and into Michigan’s freshly glacier-free landscape. That surprising feat is unlikely to be repeated as a warming climate pushes them north to the tip of Michigan’s mitten. With animation.
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus…
Well, actually, it ends up we’re from the same planet (Earth) but the phrase is still fitting to show how the two genders diverge. Like what each thinks about climate change. Researchers at Michigan State University concluded that women are more inclined to accept global warming than men. To reach this conclusion, Associate Professor of Sociology Aaron M. McCright analyzed eight years of the Gallup environmental poll data. McCright says that women are socialized to be more caring and empathetic which may be why they’re wearier of climate change consequences.
(NY) The New York Times – If we’re going to get real action on climate change any time soon, it will be via some version of legislation proposed by Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey. Their bill would limit greenhouse gases by requiring polluters to receive or buy emission permits, with the number of available permits – the “cap” in “cap and trade” – gradually falling over time. It goes without saying that the usual suspects on the right have denounced Waxman-Markey: global warming isn’t real, emission limits will destroy the economy, yada yada. But the bill also faces opposition from some environmentalists, who are balking at the compromises the sponsors made to gain political support. More