17 Startling Ways Older Adults Say They've Noticed Climate Change Throughout Their Lifetimes

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“I have ABSOLUTELY been affected. My wife and I have been living in the same house for almost 25 years, and every year, we take our anniversary pictures in the same place outside. We married in late fall when the trees were at their peak or had recently peaked, but for the last few years, the trees have still been green.”

“We also have a large pond that we used to be able to skate on from late November to early March. We get about two weeks of skating on it now, in January.

My son had a job as a ski instructor. He loved it and lived at the resorts all winter, but because they don’t have enough snow anymore, they have fewer ski days, which means less work, so he no longer works as a ski instructor.

I am a volunteer firefighter/rescue technician and have been for 23 years. We are seeing flooding of creeks and streams that rarely flooded — maybe once every five years — now flood multiple times a year.”

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