John Magnuson worries about winter. Unlike some people, though, he wishes winter were snowier, icier and longer — that it could be a season that offered more sledding, more skiing, more iceboating and ice fishing. In other words, says Magnuson, it is time to be urgent about climate-change data. He is pushing people to look locally and see how a global problem is affecting an upper-Midwestern city that is inextricably linked to winter.
“We can’t wait until climatologists get it correct and highly precise. If so, it’s going to be way past where you want to start intervening.”