IPCC Sixth Assessment Report & Wisconsin's Changing Climate: Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Climate change is becoming an important consideration for governments, businesses and people. The Digital Era/Information Age will see less pollution but that will require additional investments in green technology and science. As people move online to work and companies reduce their carbon foot prints by shortening supply chains and improving on communications they will begin to find solutions. Its not a hopeless situation as we will likely also find ways to reduce global warming with new ideas and greener ideas. That requires a new way of thinking. 

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report which is an intergovernmental panel to research climate change released a 2022 report entitled IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability that outlines some serious environmental changes. The report indicates we are going to experience some increasingly serious climate problems. The United States is poised to be hit with some of those changes as well. There will be impacts on climate,  ecosystems  and  biodiversity. Our ecosystem is fragile so increasing heat will also mean heat related deaths and starvation. 

The Upper Peninsula is connected to Wisconsin. We are integrally part of their economy. Thus, what happens in Wisconsin in terms of climate change will likely impact Escanaba. This is also one reason why I support Delta County as an outdoor recreation, innovative start up, and digital nomads land to better capitalize on economic and environmental changes (See ROI Pure MI.). 2021 Assessment Report: Wisconsin’s Changing Climate

-More snow

-More rain

-More heat

-More erosion. 

-Protect lands

(Side note: I'm a Republican, at least "Old Guard" Republican, and one of my beliefs is to be good stewards of our lands and environment. Whether or not people believe in climate change or not there are things we should be doing to protect our environment. To me, when we make small changes they add up to really big outcomes. While I'm often wrong about many things I'm also right about many things. I think and vote my conscious and don't let others tell me what to believe no matter the political pressure.....but I'm always open to understanding and that leads to critical thinking; not that I'm the best at it! Be humble enough to know you don't know much and be willing to listen more than talk. Sharing ideas is part of critical thinking as long as those ideas are well thought out and based in evidence and solid logic. Could I be wrong...yep....but chances are good stewardship is good for everyone.)

IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

2021 Assessment Report: Wisconsin’s Changing Climate. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 02-28-22. https://wicci.wisc.edu/2021-assessment-report/