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- Lake Erie has been particularly prone to the impacts of rising carbon dioxide concentrations and warming lake temperatures. Tourism, recreation, fish and wildlife, and shipping are all being impacted by the changing climate, and the situation is expected to only worsen in the decades to come.
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Aug 15, 2017 · At a Glance. Climate change has been particularly impactful for Lake Erie, where algal blooms are becoming a yearly nuisance and danger. Warmer summers are negatively impacting wildlife,...
Sep 1, 2021 · Human-caused climate change is clearly affecting local weather patterns in Western New York. Now there's evidence that it's affecting Lake Erie too.
Jun 8, 2016 · Lake Erie conditions are volatile, changing from flat to whitecaps, depdending on the day. Cleveland.com's meteorologist Kelly Reardon explains why.
Jan 16, 2024 · Cold winds blowing up the length of Lake Erie set in motion a catastrophe that would damage hundreds of homes and businesses, shut down entire cities for days on end, and even force a...
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Chris Bradley said he had no choice but to leave. He bought his cottage near Long Point, further northeast along the shore of Lake Erie, in July 2011. He said that at the time, he had about 12 metres of beachfront. But over the past few years, it has vanished. The water rose and didn't recede. Waves knocked his cottage from its foundation, ripping ...
The cost of protecting private lakefront property falls on individual owners, who are expected to get a work permit from Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry or local conservation authorities to make repairs to eroded shorelines. While the province said it recently streamlined the process, some homeowners want the government to take...
It's important to remember the cyclical nature of water levels in the Great Lakes, said Robin Davidson-Arnott, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Guelph. "We have about 100 years of really great lake measurements on all the Great Lakes," he said. "So what we're seeing is something we've seen many times in that 100 years. It's quit...
Jan 15, 2022 · Rising temperatures exacerbate algal blooms in Lake Erie, leading to bacteria-polluted drinking water in Toledo, Ohio, potentially causing a number of harmful health conditions for half a million residents.
Nov 11, 2021 · According to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report, climate change has been affecting the Great Lakes, including Ohio's Lake Erie. Due to warming in the Midwest, there is an increase of lake-effect snow, and in the future, as temperatures warm further, that could shift to rain.
