The American Meteorological Society says that the amount of ice covering the Great Lakes has decreased over 71% in the past 40 years. A drop that the author of the report attributes to climate change, El Nino and La Nina. The report published last month said only about 5 percent of the Great Lakes surface froze over this year.
thenewgreen: Sounds like it's great for the Ferry industry.Seriously though, what are the potential impacts of the lakes not freezing over? What does it do the the ecology of the lakes and how does it impact commerce etc? What are the impacts I'm not even considering?