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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 112 points 10 months ago

Weird, seems like maybe we've destroyed the climate. Who could have predicted this?

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 54 points 10 months ago

Didn’t those stupid science people mention it once or twice

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

You mean those stinky fakers who were raking in all those bucks from... (checks notes) ..."Big Science"?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Whatever. The point is where does it say anything about it in the Bible?

[-] rckclmbr@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

About the second coming:

The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

It's low key why a lot if people don't want to do anything about it, they see it as the second coming of Christ

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[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The 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.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

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!?!?!?!?"

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago

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."

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Fellas, it's been good to know ya.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Some more than others.

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[-] derf82@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

But I always sort my recycling!

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

I stopped drinking milk!

Good thing Taylor swift is allowed to fucking take her jet to a city 30 mins away though. 🙄

[-] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

As you should, but that's attempting to solve a different environmentally devistating issue.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago
[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

I’ll buy as many baby goats as I god damn please

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Can't afford 'm anyway.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Maybe if companies do drive more green washing to avoid regulation, it will totally help. /s

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] PopShark@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile, She'll just won Advertising awards for their GReEn EnErGy ad$.

Whata time to be alive lol

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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...

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