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Climate change could turn Minnesota into the new Kansas, researcher says
https://www.echopress.com/news/local/climate-change-could-turn-minnesota-into-the-new-kansas-researcher-saysFrelich is a noted researcher whose work has been cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is the United Nations' body for assessing the science related to climate change.
If the nations don't take climate change seriously and continue "business as usual," he said, summer temperatures will rise 13 degrees by 2070.
On average, Manhattan, Kansas, receives 59 days each year when the temperature reaches 90 degrees or hotter, according to Kansas State University . On average during the summer, the Twin Cities records 13 days with an air temperature of 90 degrees or higher, according to the Minnesota DNR .
With a climate like Kansas or Nebraska, cold-loving balsam fir trees would disappear from Minnesota, Frelich said. Maple trees could survive, as long as someone watered them. So the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, jack pine, black spruce, paper birch and others would be replaced by sugar maples, basswood, bur oaks, and other warmer tree species. "It would be a completely different ecosystem," he said.
If the nations don't take climate change seriously and continue "business as usual," he said, summer temperatures will rise 13 degrees by 2070.
On average, Manhattan, Kansas, receives 59 days each year when the temperature reaches 90 degrees or hotter, according to Kansas State University . On average during the summer, the Twin Cities records 13 days with an air temperature of 90 degrees or higher, according to the Minnesota DNR .
With a climate like Kansas or Nebraska, cold-loving balsam fir trees would disappear from Minnesota, Frelich said. Maple trees could survive, as long as someone watered them. So the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, jack pine, black spruce, paper birch and others would be replaced by sugar maples, basswood, bur oaks, and other warmer tree species. "It would be a completely different ecosystem," he said.
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