With an average temperature of 44.6 degrees, Duluth felt the effects of El Nino punctuating a decades-long warming trend due to greenhouse gas emissions released by human activities.
From the column: "We must hold perpetrators responsible for killing our home – just like we hold perpetrators responsible for genocide, for killing a people."
How does the writer know the earth’s temperature is rising because of rising carbon dioxide instead of carbon dioxide is rising because earth’s temperature is rising?
From the column: "Our country and our city cannot fall into a trap of blindly accepting the false narratives about climate change that many of our political and business leaders are promoting."
Ted Ozersky, a UMD associate biology professor and interim director of the Large Lakes Observatory, co-authored a review outlining the environmental and societal consequences of less lake ice.
With increasing carbon emissions, there have been higher temperatures, resulting in less snowfall and changes to the timing of the annual spring melts.
