Want to keep the Great Lakes great? Adapt to climate change, says Mac prof
The city of Toronto's skyline, as seen across Lake Ontario., one of North America's Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh surface water on earth.
They contain roughly 18 per cent of the world’s inventory – or 23,000 km cubed, covering a total area of 244,000 square kilometres.
And if we want to keep the Great Lakes great, we’re going to have to adapt to climate change.
That’s the message in a new blog post published by Gail Krantzberg.
The director of McMaster’s Masters of Engineering and Public Policy Program says that adaptation measures that focus on reducing vulnerability of the water system to both current and future climate variability and extreme events are necessary, regardless of the rate of future climate change.
The op-ed was published by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, and has been re-published on McMaster’s Medium page, found below.
