This is another excellent guest post by Muskegon Critic … Lake Michigan and Huron are within a couple inches of breaking all time low water levels on record, and now climate change is emerging as the leading cause. It works like this: warmer weather –> less ice cover in the winter –> more evaporation [We’re […]
Climate Change is Evaporating the Things we Love – Great Lakes at Historic Lows
November 18th, 2012 · Comments Off on Climate Change is Evaporating the Things we Love – Great Lakes at Historic Lows
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Ken Burns’ Prequel to the Dust-Bowlification of America’s Southwest
November 18th, 2012 · Comments Off on Ken Burns’ Prequel to the Dust-Bowlification of America’s Southwest
This evening, PBS will start broadcasting the latest of film documentarian Ken Burns’ treatises on significant periods and issues of American history. THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away […]
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