• Ice out and climate change

  • Feb 23 2024
  • Length: 8 mins
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Ice out and climate change

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  • We have dramatically changed our climate. It's easy to consider that the change is slight. After all, who can remember what our climate was like back in the 70s? Back when it was "normal"? But consider this, roughly 60% of the US population had not even been born until the 1980s. So, our childhood recollections of "normal" weather occurred when climate change was already well underway. Scientists call this phenomenon the "shifting baseline" - what we each consider baseline conditions is very different from what a pre-industrial baseline might look like. This episode examines long-term data sets to explore how climate has affected important parts of the New England culture like ice fishing, lilac flowering, and maple sugaring.


    The episode art is from the Joe's Pond Association website. It shows a concrete block perched on a wooden pallet on the frozen pond. "When the ice breaks, the pallet will fall, and down will come cinder block".....unplugging a clock to establish the precise moment of ice out! Please pay them for their photograph by placing a bet on when the ice will go out in 2024: https://www.joespondvermont.com/ice-out-tickets.html

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