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Originally Posted by Biggd
The taboo phrase that causes political arguments, "climate change".
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I think everyone agrees that climate change is occurring… As an avid winter outdoor enthusiast, it is clearly evident to me that our winters are getting warmer without a doubt. You would have to be living in a cave not see it! Now the reason for the climate change will bring political arguments…
I honestly feel the reason for the large outbreak of cyano this year is we have had a perfect storm for it to occur. Two back to back years of little or no ice cover due to warmer weather, rainy wet springs causing excessive flooding and storm water runoff into our lakes and streams, early spring heat and of course a hot summer all contributed to what has occurred. Yes of course lawn fertilizer and geese all contribute to the issue but in what percentages I have no idea…
My guess is and this is just a guess, that if every lakeside lawn didn’t use fertilizer, we would still have the cyano issue this year. Too many other factors involved in the perfect storm we had for the cyano issue not to occur.
What about dock bubblers that are run all winter long to keep the ice from freezing and promote shoreline algae growth…should those be banned along with phosphorous fertilizer?….i believe they should…
Food for thought…
Dan