WKSU Public Radio
To paraphrase a quote from the 1990s sitcom “NewsRadio”: Winter in Northeast Ohio is the best seven months of the year. But that may not be true in the future. The four warmest winters on record occurred in the past decade. This edition of WKSU’s OH Really? answers a listener question about how climate change might affect Northeast Ohio in the future. […]
Peter Whiting is a professor in the Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who says climate change has already affected Northeast Ohio.
“What we’re really talking about is what we call anthropogenic, manmade climate change. It’s like putting an extra blanket on the Earth. That blanket is one that lets in energy, but keeps it from going out to space and we get warmer. We’ve already gotten maybe a degree, degree-and-a-half Fahrenheit warmer over the last 30 or 40 years.”