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With a record heatwave starting tomorrow, #ShowYourStripes day is timely.🥵
The #GreatLakes have helped to moderate warming, but even in southern Ontario we see a clear pattern of significantly increased warming during the last 25 years.

We’re on a terrible path that we aren’t even aware exists: collapsing the marine food chain.
The End Permian event did that. It was ugly. Lots of fungal spores in the fossil record, not a lot of bones. Barely anything survived.
We’re having issues with phytoplankton in the #GreatLakes too. Invasive mussels have done huge damage to how the food chain (Esp. in

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic
Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study …

it breaks my heart to think of the world my children and grandchildren are inheriting
#whitefish #GreatLakes #FoodWeb #biodiversity

Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens | Bridge Michigan
Few fish are as synonymous with Michigan as whitefish. Pushed to the edge by invasive species, their struggle is the tip of a cataclysmic species collapse that could change our way of life.