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Climate change could potentially increase the occurrence of 100-year floods. This is significant because 100-year floods are major floods that have a 1 percent chance of occurring in any given year. Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsula could see an increase of 25 to 500 percent increase of 100- year floods from 2040 to 2060 compared to those ...
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The curve shown in graphs of these reconstructions is widely known as the hockey stick graph because of the sharp increase in temperatures during the last century. As of 2010 [update] this broad pattern was supported by more than two dozen reconstructions , using various statistical methods and combinations of proxy records, with variations in ...
Publicity over the concerns of scientists about the implications of global warming led to increasing public and political interest, and the Reagan administration, concerned in part about the political impact of scientific findings, successfully lobbied for the 1988 formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce reports subject to detailed approval by government delegates ...
Climate change increased temperature, reduced the amount of precipitation, decreased snowpack and increased the ability of air to soak humidity, helping to create arid conditions. As of 2021 the drought was the most severe in the last 500 years. [65] As of 30 June 2021 61% of continental USA were in drought conditions.
Climate change will make things worse. There’s been quite a bit of hoopla about Tuesday’s storm that knocked out power for many Michigan residents, which understandably had many people frustrated.
Michigan’s new renewable energy standard (P.A. 235) was written for climate change integrators and access to taxpayer largesse.
[2] Under Harding, the Michigan DEQ "regularly spurned federal grants to study climate change" and rejected outreach from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking state engagement. [4] Harding said that he believed that addressing climate change would cause an economic risk to the state. [5]