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As we get the iceboats out in the coming days, if you are wondering about long term trends in lake ice formation dates, here are a couple quick references for you to scan during the football border battles this weekend:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/289/5485/1743

This first one by Magnuson et al is the research that convince me over a decade ago climate change was happening. (Probably one of the best 'simple' research approaches to measure climate change.)

Note: you need a subscription access via directly, your library or work to access the full article.

However, I ran across this link out of Europe which has a couple graphs showing the same trends as the Magnuson paper.

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/lake-and-river-ice-cov...

Have fun this winter!