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MILWAUKEE From polar bears crowded onto shrinking ice caps, to islands swallowed up by rising seas, there are plenty of ways that climate change is transforming our world.
But for Wisconsinites, there are also impacts much closer to home: Water in Lake Michigan has been steadily getting warmer in recent decades, even deep below the surface, according to a recent study by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers.
What You Need To Know
Three decades of NOAA data show that warming is happening deep below the lake s surface
On average, the subsurface water is heating up by around 0.06 degrees Celsius each decade