By Mark Nale, The Centre Daily Times

What connects low summer water levels in favorite Centre County trout streams to a serious outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) in southwestern Pennsylvania deer and thousands of bass dying from a bacterial infection in the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers?

If you answered “global warming,” pat yourself on the back, for you have an understanding of the issue and how it is affecting Pennsylvania.

While environmentally conscious readers are probably 99 percent behind the global warming issue and the need to do something, I find that hunters and anglers, the individuals overtly affected, have been split. The naysayers fall into four main camps: Those who think that the scientists do not know what they are talking about; those who believe that it is happening, but claim that it is the result of a non-human-caused “natural cycle;” those fence-sitters who want to wait for more evidence; and, finally, those who think that it is some type of United Nations plot to take over the world.

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