Robertson Appears on Local News

To mark National Environmental Education Week, GSS Director Andy Robertson spoke about climate change in a segment on Mason City’s KIMT local news. He addressed the shift in frequency of extreme weather events related to climate change: “The randomness of change - related to climate warming - is what has the greatest impact. It could be increased precipitation, it could be decreased precipitation. It could be decreased heat. It could be cooling at the wrong time of year. So the lilac bushes were the best example of the past year where the lilacs bloomed like they normally do in the spring, but then bloomed a second time in the fall because we had a warming period and a drying period. It got them out of sync. And now the speculation is they're not going to bloom at all this spring." See the full story here.