I also want you to know that 10,000 years ago - where I live on the Door Peninsula - was covered by an ice sheet a mile thick! Yup, that is a pile of glaciation. So much so that the earth's crust continues to rebound from the weight of all of that ice. The truth of the matter is that things have gotten warmer ever since.
The climate has changed.
And yes - beginning with the industrial revolution - I'm sure the hand of man has contributed to this change. But I digress.
In this column the issue of climate threats uses data from Four Twenty Seven, a company that assesses climate risk for financial markets. As a recovering financial guy I can appreciate the careful study of risks as they relate to financial markets. The index measures future risks based on climate models and historical data. And the authors assigned the highest risk for each county to build a map and combined it with separate data from Four Twenty Seven on wildfire and other climate risks.
As it turns out life here on the peninsula is actually low risk from the point of view of climate change.
Extreme rainfall risk - Medium
Water stress, Heat stress and Wildfire risk - Low
Hurricane and Sea level rise risk - NoneIt's rather safe to live here. And while sea level rise is a non-issue, lake level rise is huge issue for business and people on the coastline.
And for the record - over the last number of decades we've been hanging around here I've taken notice of two anecdotal changes:
No snow for the November gun deer opener in fifteen years. The November gun season has become milder. And the last three years have been witness to above-average precipitation.
You can use the link in the first paragraph to assess these same risks for any county in the United States.
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Recently closed on 40 acres in the Upper Peninsula. I would be lying if climate concerns did not come up in conversation when evaluating where to look for recreational property.
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