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'Attribution science' uses modeling to assess role of warming in weather events

Water levels throughout the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River System are expected to peak below the record-high levels seen in 2019.

DEP's Climate Change Impact Assessment report focuses on livestock and watershed

The International Joint Commission says it's doing everything it can to mitigate rising lake levels but it still might not be enough.

"We were able to contribute to lake levels being fairly stable through the month of March compared with historic records."

"Trees, as a group, are more responsive to these temperature shifts than wildflowers,”

It is a set of guidelines for how high and low water levels in Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence are allowed to get.

"You get double speak. You get half justifications for things, and we’re not getting action from them. So today, the gloves come off."

"This is our dream home, this is our house forever, but if you have to put up with this every year, every other year, it’s not a whole lot of fun living here."

“All the water we’re letting out will lessen the impact down the road; it doesn’t guarantee there won’t be flooding but I can guarantee there will be less of it."