The Minneapolis Star Tribune has really been ramping up on the climate change articles lately. Here are two different headlines featured today.
A wetter world is changing farm country. Can growers adapt?
Minneapolis landmark Minnehaha Falls dries up for second year in a row
Managing the falls, which is part of Minnehaha Creek, has become more difficult as Minnesota experiences the effects of climate change.
There is an old photo in my family of my father as a boy back in the early thirties. He has a water pail in his hand and is literally stepping
over a ribbon of water. That ribbon of water is the Mississippi just north of Minneapolis. Area wells including city wells were dry so people went to get water from a hand pump in the sidewalk outside of a business that still had water.
That business probably 80 years previous had something to do with livestock so a well for the trough was needed. Dad said the line of people was blocks long night and day.
The place was in Nordeast, east side of the Mississippi and barely 2 blocks off the river, just south of the brewery. Dad lived west side of the river. For a long time after and up until maybe 20 years ago the place was a saloon, called the Town Pump.
The point is, everything is cyclical. I also read just months ago that the large volcanic eruption in the Pacific a year or maybe two back vaporized enough water to increase the overall molecular moisture content of our atmosphere worldwide by 11%. Things are cyclical and not always man’s fault.
Osky
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