{"id":11805,"date":"2020-02-28T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11805"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:45:22","slug":"no-ice-on-lake-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11805","title":{"rendered":"No ice on Lake Superior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/it.nmu.edu\/campics\/mtmesnard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webcam<\/a> maintained by Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, Michigan, shows scarcely any ice on Lake Superior &#8212; at the end of February, the most miserable time of the year.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/NMU_2020Feb28.JPG\" width=600><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To help orient yourself, here&#8217;s a map showing the location of Marquette &#8212; almost due east of Duluth.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/location_of_marquette.JPG\" width=600><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The wolf and moose on Isle Royale (a federal park comprising an island in Lake Superior) cross the ice bridge to the mainland each winter, a key mechanism for maintaining the genetic diversity of the herds; because the bridge rarely forms nowadays, the herds are now in decline and growing sickly.  There are doubtless other varieties of wildlife adversely affected by rising temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>But the First Felon, abetted by such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, continues to insist that concern about climate change is nothing but a liberal bed-wetter hoax sponsored by the Chinese &#8212; and a lot of moronic Americans fall for it.  He <i><u>must<\/u><\/i> be put out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A webcam maintained by Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, Michigan, shows scarcely any ice on Lake Superior &#8212; at the end of February, the most miserable time of the year. To help orient yourself, here&#8217;s a map showing the location &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}