The Great Lakes Aren’t Suffering from Climate Change, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
11 hours ago Guest Blogger
By Linnea Lueken
A recent article by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MJS) titled “Extreme heat. Warmer water. More ticks. Fewer fish. Climate change report brings grim news,” claims that the Great Lakes region is suffering from climate change, especially in the realm of extreme heat and unstable lake water levels. This is false. Heat is not becoming more extreme in the Midwest, nor are the Great Lakes’ levels unusual.
The MJS references a climate change report written by the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), which the paper says “brings grim news.” The ELPC is a renewables-promotion organization, that stands against nuclear, coal, and gas, in favor of wind and solar.
The MJS lists several areas of “grim news,” but for the sake of brevity this Climate Realism post will address just a few of them.
The writer of MJS’s story begins her story by saying that people used to consider the Great Lakes region a “climate haven,” protected from extreme weather. This is obvious nonsense. Thousands of people, seasonal snowbirds included, leave that area for sunny places like Florida and Arizona every winter. The region is famous for its “Lake effect,” blizzards and storms. No place is a climate haven. A previous Climate Realism post debunked the same claim made about Asheville, NC, in the aftermath of devastating hurricane-related floods there in 2024. Extreme weather happens everywhere at some time or another, choosing the Midwest, you get hot summers prone to extreme thunderstorms and tornadoes, and winters with severe snow.
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