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.
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!?!?!?!?”
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!?!?!?!?”
A bunch of idiots online: " it’s just El ninio. I like warm weather."
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.
I 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.
This 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.
But I always sort my recycling!
I stopped drinking milk!
Good thing Taylor swift is allowed to fucking take her jet to a city 30 mins away though. 🙄
As you should, but that’s attempting to solve a different environmentally devistating issue.
Don’t have kids
I’ll buy as many baby goats as I god damn please
Can’t afford 'm anyway.
Maybe if companies do drive more green washing to avoid regulation, it will totally help. /s
I 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.
I’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
Meanwhile, She’ll just won Advertising awards for their GReEn EnErGy ad$.
Whata time to be alive lol
Oh 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.
if 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…
Show 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.
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.
Cool cool. You go first, lead by example and others will follow.
If only these problems could be solved by 1 person.
What, do you need a buddy system or something for your murder spree?
it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.
So you spend your time on the internet trying to convince people to meet up with you irl and kill folk?
How’s that working out for you, any takers?
i’m just a problem solver. i don’t see how we can fix anything until the far right is destroyed. they will muddy the waters until it’s too late. i’m genuinely asking you what alternative you see to making lasting change for the better. all we have to do is collectively agree that’s what it’s going to take and people will start figuring out how to organize.
At this point climate collapse and resource depletion is going to take care of us all by the end of the century so imo damage mitigation is our best option.
Don’t have kids. Go vegan. Reduce your consumption of items produced by slavery and sweatshops as much as possible.
Basically just do as much as you can to lower the amount of suffering you create by existing.Killing people in the name of left wing politics is going to make things worse for everyone.
it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.
it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.
True, 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?’
it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.
Okay, who have you organized so far for this mob? Where and when are they meeting?
you keep asking me what i’ve done. what have YOU done? where’s our clandestine communications? it takes cooperation.
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No, I’m asking you when and where the mob is meeting. You’ve said there has to be a mob. When and where will the mob be? Just give us a time and a date and a place.
the point is to keep calling for one until people take it seriously enough to form one. it’s a war. whose side are you on?
We can’t take it seriously enough to form one unless you tell us when and where to form it. It seems like you don’t really want this mob to happen since you aren’t being proactive about it.
cowards need mobs. just start and set the trend, since everyone else is too chickenshit.
Do you think The Purge is real or something? One day we can just kill people that deserve it?
a 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.
I bet you’re too chicken shit to go self immolate on the white house lawn, too.
What would that accomplish?
Historically, fuck all.
So what’s with the original reply then? Not really adding to the conversation. In an existential crisis, people historically choose life over death, but now we’re choosing the slow death.
I thought it exemplified the pointlessness of the original comment.
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