Are you preparing for climate change in your area or hoping it can be reduced, stopped or reversed?

[crosinski]

22. Thanks for the very useful link.

We looked at what the University of Michigan had to say about climate change for this area when we moved here thirty years ago. It was the nearly same then, and they were absolutely right. The two things that I don't remember them mentioning, and that we didn't count on, are the mosquitoes and tics!

Our first home in Michigan was between small lakes with lots of marsh and low land that flooded easily. The tics grew to monstrous size in the spring, and after a rain you couldn't make it from the house to the car without a mosquito hit squad attack. In late summer, small biting flies joined the free food party. In our twenty years there, the summers got wetter and hotter, and autumn was always a huge relief. So, from that experience, we had our first lesson in how climate change is really a cascading set of events, and you never know exactly how you're going to get caught up in them.

Now we're nearer Lake Michigan in a 'mircro climate.' We hope that'll be a good thing, but honestly don't know. The land drains far better here, so there are fewer bugs of all kinds. (We are giddily grateful for that.) Now we do what we can for what we know is coming, and stay flexible for everything else.

Currently, I see that we're going to lose some of our US wheat crop to drought. Maybe a good deal of it.