When - - not if - - Gov. Evers' new team at the DNR recreates an honest, scientifically-based Great Lakes climate change page to replace what Walker's people ideologically scrubbed, this is the sort of information that should be posted, studied, distributed and plugged into policy-making:
The reconstituted webpage could also use a dose of this:
Climate change has beenreducing the average amount of ice and snow cover on the Great Lakes. For fish species like ciscoes, this could end up being a problem. Researchers at the University of Vermont are studying if more light, because of less ice cover, could have an impact on fish egg development and survival after hatching....
Ciscoes play an important role in the Great Lakes ecosystem. They’re a vital preyfish species to important predators such as lake trout, and they and their eggs (as caviar) are eaten by people.Ciscoes look like this:
The reconstituted webpage could also use a dose of this:
The World Was Just Issued 12-Year Ultimatum On Climate Change
Leading climate scientists paint dire portrait of years to come if we maintain carbon-emission status quo
