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.

  • rab
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    1 year ago

    Unless you leave your kids a large fortune, they are going to live a life of suffering, that’s just realistic. I’m assuming you live in the US

    Of course you go around telling people to kill themselves, you’re a textbook narcissist

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      1 year ago

      Hahha they? It does not matter how big your fortune is, life is suffering. That is a universal true. The point is, what to do about it. You can be as selfish as possible and wish there were “less of us” in the planet (you can start with yourself) or find meaning in life, what better that be responsible and find an adventure. There is no better adventure than having kids.

      But what would you know, sounds like you think people are “a cancer in the planet” well start erradicating it with leaving this planet :)

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        11 months ago

        If you admit life is suffering then why are you subjecting your kids to it? Your logic is completely backwards