Frigid Feb puts deep freeze on the Great Lakes 2002ish
I know it has been forever since I posted something worth reading but here we go. I was cleaning out the drawer in the coffee table and I came across a bunch of newspaper articles that I had stashed in there over the years and I thought why not share them and my thoughts about them. Don't worry they won't all be in this entry. The first one is rather short. This is from 2002ish time period, not really sure forgot to cut out the date. Apearently NASA took photos of the Great Lakes showing ice almost completly covering Lake Huron and Lake Erie and circlinng the shore of Lake Michigan.
An unusually cold late winter in Eastren Canada has left 90 per cent of lakes Superior, Huron and Erie covered in ice.
Lake Superior, the largest and deepest of the lakes, was almost 98 per cent covered in ice last Thursday, the date of the most recent servey by the National IceCenter, a unit of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
According to NASA, ice covers Lake Erie on occasion but it is rare for the larger and deeper Superior and Huron to freeze over completely.
Temperatures in February averaged 5 degrees below normal and it's even to cold to harvest maple syrup. In southren Ontario and Quebec, this winter it the 10th coldest since 1948.
Originally I probibly just cut this article out for the picture of the Great Lakes from space covered in ice but thinking about it today sends chills into me. Think about it we have known about the dangers of GLOBAL WARMING for how long and still we have yet to really do anything about it. Only in this past year do I feel that Canada has caught onto this danger by putting out more energy efficent products like hybrid cars. The question that scares me the most by letting all this time to go by without doing anything did we doom ourselves? Did we wait to long?
An unusually cold late winter in Eastren Canada has left 90 per cent of lakes Superior, Huron and Erie covered in ice.
Lake Superior, the largest and deepest of the lakes, was almost 98 per cent covered in ice last Thursday, the date of the most recent servey by the National IceCenter, a unit of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
According to NASA, ice covers Lake Erie on occasion but it is rare for the larger and deeper Superior and Huron to freeze over completely.
Temperatures in February averaged 5 degrees below normal and it's even to cold to harvest maple syrup. In southren Ontario and Quebec, this winter it the 10th coldest since 1948.
Originally I probibly just cut this article out for the picture of the Great Lakes from space covered in ice but thinking about it today sends chills into me. Think about it we have known about the dangers of GLOBAL WARMING for how long and still we have yet to really do anything about it. Only in this past year do I feel that Canada has caught onto this danger by putting out more energy efficent products like hybrid cars. The question that scares me the most by letting all this time to go by without doing anything did we doom ourselves? Did we wait to long?