Climate change is here: Wisconsin is seeing earlier springs, later falls, less snow and more floods

Scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Initiative on Climate Change Impacts — an effort to identify climate change fallout and offer coping strategies — believe that the effects can be mitigated with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. They believe that policy makers and public agencies can take measures to adapt. But those measures are on indefinite hold. “It’s disappointing, particularly with the shutdown of the DNR science bureau that WICCI collaborated with,” said Michael Notaro, a UW-Madison professor on the front lines of climate research.