Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 07/14/2011 7:35:57 AM PDT by Thebaddog
Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former park system administrator said Wednesday.
Without changes in public policies and personal habits that pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the parks could lose qualities that attract visitors and support unique ecosystems, Stephen Saunders, former deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department, said in a report released by two advocacy groups.
"Human disruption of the climate is the greatest threat ever to America's national parks," Saunders said. "Threads are being pulled out of the tapestry of these parks and the parks are beginning to lose their luster."
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council helped produce Saunders' report, which focused on five parks or lakeshores in the region: Indiana Dunes in Indiana; Isle Royale, Sleeping Bear and Pictured Rocks in Michigan; and Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. Together, they drew more than 4 million visitors in 2010.
Using federal temperature data and previous scientific studies, Saunders and colleagues said climate change was at least partially responsible for a series of unfavorable developments in the parks, which can serve as early warning systems for the wider environment.
The decade that ended last year was the hottest on record at Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan, where records from a nearby weather station showed the average temperature from 2001-2010 was 1.6 degrees above the average for the 20th century, the report said. At Pictured Rocks on Lake Superior, the average from the most recent decade was 2.7 degrees higher than for the last century.
The worldwide average for the decade was 1.5 degrees above the average for the 20th century.
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I saw an interesting cable show that theorized that the Great Lakes with the exception of Superior were developed as eroded river beds. They found evidence of Indian villages well out into lake Huron
Try swimming in lake superior sometime. Lake Michigan is like bathwater compared to superior.
Three days ago al gore promised a renewed assault on America using globull warming lies... they are fighting for the life of their scam and their grants.
LLS
The Emperor’s new clothes were very stylish.
I think it is Mark Dayton’s fault—no beer on the shelves & state parks closed.
What? You’re not willing to sacrifice to spare future generations the horrors of shoreline erosion? For shame.
I think it is Mark Dayton’s fault—no beer on the shelves & state parks closed.
Great Lakes Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory Censored!!
“Great Lakes” November 26, 2010 ... that these tactics are going on in North America in what could be a literal theft of the Great Lakes. ... Examines the role of the bottled water indu...
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It is cats not cars causing global warming!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cats-not-cars-cause-climate-change/
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Let's not forget the destruction due to Climate Change that was also taking place out west, in the period 20,000-14,000 years ago.
Nevada suffered greatly from Climate Change, also.
That sucker had a max depth of about 900' in the Carson Sink, and was was about 500' deep at the Black Rock Desert around 12-13,000 years ago...Burning Man would have had to find a different location.
Strangest thing, though; it wasn't Man that did any of this; it was just the ending of the last glacial, which we are STILL pulling out of, which included such catastrophic events as ice-dams giving way, and lakes overflowing with melt water cutting new drainage gorges, as well as just plain drying up.
If Stephen Saunders, former deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department, doesn't know these facts, then he didn't deserve his job; if he does know them, then it's still a damn good thing he is "former".
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Because they're libs and to act superior and presume they know better and tell people what to do is the only solution to any "problem".
That's how I love to respond to those recurring "You must give up your freedom/tax dollars RIGHT NOW on [insert issue]. It's.....FOR THE CHEEEEEEEELRUN!" My response is "Who wants to have a child so weak that he can't live without even MORE power ceded to the government? What could someone that frail possibly accomplish when they grow up? Better to just let that one die as comfortably as possible and just start over. We can make more, you know!"
Please freepmail me if you wish to be added or dropped from the mitten ping.
The Feds want Michigan. They will take it one piece at a time.
I was wondering the same thing as I was watering my lawn on OUR day. What the heck, our water is drawn from the lake and I'm 1) having to pay for it 2) only allowed to use it outside every other day. We had alot of rain this spring, but they still keep the hammer down.
Hit pieces like this come out every summer when there’s a heat wave in play. Using the weather forecast everyone watches as a subtle backdrop to add fear or believability to the story is getting kind of old though.
Doesn’t he think that anyone remembers how long and miserable last winter was for most of us in the north? I bet if the editor had this story hit his desk back in January he would have laughed and filed it away as a useless waste of ink and it never would have been printed.
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