Anne N. ConnorPresenting the Champlain Ice Scarf: #climate #knitting. The white rows are years when Lake Champlain (#vermont) froze over. The blue rows are years when it did not. Data are from 1800 through 2021. Guess which end is 1820.
Puffer@AnneENConnor Lovely & alarming.
@puffer Exactly what I was going for. Thanks!
PammyStarr 
✍️@AnneENConnor wow. And I’m thinking we are getting blue this year!
Deborah Rose@AnneENConnor Spring is arriving earlier and winter is starting later, so I would say that Lake Champlain is freezing over less and less.
Elizabeth@AnneENConnor
What a creative graphic display!
What a creative graphic display!
David Sleight@AnneENConnor Wonderful!
Carl Johnson@AnneENConnor In addition to climate change, the lake had a huge problem with stormwater and untreated sewage being dumped in the lake primarily on the Vermont side. There were many years of quiet fighting between NY and Vermont to get Vermont to lower its phosphorus contributions. Not sure where they are on compliance.
manybobs 🇨🇦@AnneENConnor oh, wow..a certain commentary about climate change.
Magmuni-muni (ResearcherGrace)@AnneENConnor
Beautiful and terrifying. In-laws are from Vermont and I'd love to give something like this to them as a gift. Do you have a data source that I could use to get started? Thank you!
Beautiful and terrifying. In-laws are from Vermont and I'd love to give something like this to them as a gift. Do you have a data source that I could use to get started? Thank you!
@magmunimuni Here is a folder with the pattern and some photos. Happy knitting! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c1fuF7_Vke0sWFunyIxdWjfBz0O8zEHK?usp=share_link
Valarie 🏳️🌈@AnneENConnor this reminds me of the #tempestry project, are you part of that too?
@valarie Please tell me more about the tempestry project. I’m not familiar with it.
Katell Jentreau@drew First thought was: I like this pattern! Second thought: Ugh. 😞
Graham Boyd@AnneENConnor excellent representation of what climate change means!
@AnneENConnor are there stories about the impact, outcomes, consequences of the lake not freezing over? Narratives where the listener can think "that's a story about someone like me" and so feel the impact, even though they may be living a long way away?
@GrahamBoydphd Great question! I’m sure there are. I’ll post some examples in a few days.
@GrahamBoydphd The last time the lake froze over regularly was before my lifetime. Different era.Here are some narratives from Vermont Folklife. https://www.vtfolklife.org/fieldnotes/out-on-the-ice
Out on the Ice — Vermont Folklife
This month we are excited to present the first in a series of monthly blog posts from our Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton . Between April and December Susan will share insights into her work and interesting things she comes across in the collection. As winter gradually tra
@AnneENConnor excellent!
@GrahamBoydphd Most of the impact is on ecosystems. For example, some frog species evolved to freeze in the winter. https://www.thesciencewriter.org/resilience-stories/in-a-warming-world-freeze-tolerant-frogs-face-new-threats
@GrahamBoydphd Here’s a personal essay about declining snow cover in Vermont. Different but related. https://flywayjournal.org/non-fiction/snowshoeing-and-other-endangered-activities-anne-n-connor/
@AnneENConnor excellent story bringing the message in your knitting to life!
Dr Bea Gare (she/her)@AnneENConnor Love me a bit of knitting activism 🧶❤️
Kevin Karhan 
@AnneENConnor the one wit the lesser blue lines...
D2@AnneENConnor I'm still grieving the loss of pond hockey and skating in the neighborhood. It was an incredible and magical way to bring the community's kids together.
Waking up early on Saturday, shoveling the new dusting of snow off the ice, and playing all day is a memory I wish my kids could have.
Kim@AnneENConnor I feel like this is worthy of being a museum exhibit. ✨
LegalQuilts@AnneENConnor What an amazing idea.
JoeLamportExcellent visualization!
Laura Lee
rose@AnneENConnor what a beautiful data visualization!
JulieB@AnneENConnor My apologies - I want to share this with a friend but I want to be sure my guess is right! Are you saying that in the 1800's it rarely froze and now it almost always freezes? (Living on the West Coast and we have different issues here in relation to Global Warming.)
@JulieB, Thanks for the question! Actually it’s the other way around. From 1800 to 1948, Champlain froze every year but two. From 1949 on, the lake has been open much more. It reflects warming winters in the northeast. https://www.weather.gov/btv/lakeclose
@AnneENConnor I wondered! Our winters are getting harder and harder here in the Seattle area, and my friend who lives near Lake Champlain is just getting buried in snow. Thanks for the quick answer!
@AnneENConnor Beautiful piece but rather depressing. I’m doing a temperature scarf for 2023 here in Minnesota
@Melarsen57 I’d love to see a photo when it’s done.
@AnneENConnor I’ll keep that in mind! Happy New Year!
KatM@AnneENConnor used to watch people drive their pickups out on Shelburne bay, doesn't look like that's going to happen this year
Gena Barning@AnneENConnor I'm guessing 1820 is to the left.
theredelm@AnneENConnor That is a great idea! I have a similar set up that I’ve yet to knit for fire seasons and drought in the SW.
Kedi@AnneENConnor what a great idea … and terrifying visual!
Patrick Vanhoucke@AnneENConnor What a beautiful and very visual way to present this kind of data.
kimu@AnneENConnor it would feel odd to me to favorite such a stark record of the change of climate, so instead I’ll say it’s beautiful work and a powerful way to show what is happening over time.
SherBeareth@AnneENConnor as a native Vermonter who lives on Otter Creek, THAT is remarkable! What an effort.
PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦@AnneENConnor Couldn't possibly be the far right? 🙂
@peterdeppisch 1820 is far left.
@[email protected] and UGH. I would like to blame my dyslexia - but I blew it.
Patty Kimura@AnneENConnor Brilliant.
Peter Principle@AnneENConnor What's striking is how quickly it changed. Tipping points, etc.
@jobsboils That struck me, too!
@AnneENConnor The thick black band about two feet (?) from the end -- what years are those?
@jobsboils It gets pretty dark (it’s actually a dark blue) starting in 1949. Here’s a listing of all the years: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cY6qvO7qTN6AL8-Ae0jhm3kjLYG21pJk/view?usp=sharing
@AnneENConnor I think the 1970-1980 event is what I'm looking at. Wonder what happened then. Seems kind of early to be climate change related, but the warming trend since then is pretty clear.
Alex Hanlon@AnneENConnor Thanks for posting this, outstanding knitting effort with dark yet educational undertones. Love it! ❤️
Dyke on her Bike@AnneENConnor
Love the idea, love the execution, horrified at the data.
Love the idea, love the execution, horrified at the data.