“Basically, human impact is putting our atmosphere on steroids.”
This was first published in the “In This Climate” Newsletter. You can sign up for it here, or by using the form at the bottom of this article. “Basically, human impact is putting our atmosphere on steroids.” Welcome back to the In This Climate Newsletter! I’m Ken. I launched this newsletter to bring climate change to the neighborhood level. How is climate change impacting Michigan right now — and how will it impact Michigan in the future? What can we do about it? We’ll spend some time looking at the issues — and we’ll seek out solutions. We’ll talk to the experts. We’ll educate ourselves along the way. If this sounds like something you’re interested in, welcome to the climate club! If not, feel free to manage your newsletter subscriptions here. Unless you were sleeping under a rock last weekend, you likely saw the major flooding that hit Metro Detroit, mostly in Wayne County. It was just another 500-year flood event — but it hasn’t been 500 years. It hasn’t even been 10 years. Major freeways flooded, including I-94, which is STILL closed as of this writing on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blamed the flooding disaster on climate change, and renewed her push for infrastructure funding. “Now we are seeing the cost of not fixing it. It would be overly simplistic to use one time dollars because this is an ongoing problem,” said Whitmer.
