Bought and paid for climate hoax promotion? After nine-day expenses-paid alarmist fest, "journalist" Barbara Miner suggests that CO2 caused her basement to flood

Ready for 'climate chaos'? - Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

It was during a nine-day fellowship studying Great Lakes water issues. As our group of 16 journalists circumnavigated Lake Ontario, we heard horror story after horror story of how humankind had messed up the world's largest body of fresh water: whether the devastation of invasive species or the effects of pollution - such as the "dead zone" in the harbor of Hamilton, Canada, where toxic pollutants have ensured nothing can live in the waters: not fish, not zebra mussels, not seaweed. Nothing.
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Yet as the once-in-a-century flood devastated swaths of the Milwaukee region on July 22, I couldn't help but think back to that discussion and the warning that climate change could change life as we know it not just in coastal regions but also in the Great Lakes.
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The phrase "climate chaos" has a nice cadence and cuts to the chase. "Warming" and "change" are too mild to adequately describe the personal toll of hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. And "global" too easily makes us forget local factors and consequences.
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Barbara Miner is a Milwaukee-based journalist who took part in the Great Waters Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources in April.

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