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.

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      10 months ago

      You mean those stinky fakers who were raking in all those bucks from… (checks notes) …“Big Science”?

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        10 months ago

        About the second coming:

        The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

        It’s low key why a lot if people don’t want to do anything about it, they see it as the second coming of Christ

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          Some of them are trying to speed it up. War in Israel is exactly what they want because they think that all the Jews have to return there for Jesus to come back.

          This Jew ain’t goin’ to Israel. I’m an American, not an Israeli, and I have never had any interest in going to or supporting Israel. If I’m going to travel, I’ll travel to a country that isn’t constantly at war with a people they keep oppressed.

          Sorry to disappoint you, evangelicals. Guess Jesus isn’t coming back.