Posted on 03/09/2024 2:54:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
The lakes hit their lowest ice cover in over 50 years last month, with experts warning that toxic algal blooms and lower fish stocks could follow.
Biologists have been keeping tabs on a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958. But they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just a fortnight.
The ski plane the Michigan Tech University researchers study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there's nowhere to touch down on the island. But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.
As climate change accelerates, scientists are scrambling to understand how iceless winters could affect the world's largest freshwater system.
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Euroweenies scream, “Oh my GOD, what does it mean!!!?”
As if they have some control over it.
Record snows and rains in the West.
FTA-“This year really drives home the point that we need to collect more data,” says Trista Vick-Majors, an assistant biology professor who studies aquatic ecosystems at Michigan Tech.
I speak pork. Let me translate. “We need more grant money because we don’t want real jobs.”
I am tired of the use of “record”. It always has a caveat of some cherry-picked start date. In this case it is 1973. Fifty years makes for a good hockey stick. One hundred years probably makes it look like a recovery toward normal.
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