Data from NOAA through Sealevel indicates from 1889 through 1940 carbon dioxide rose from 295 - 311 parts per million (Sealevel, 2022). As this occurred data from NOAA indicated that snow trends along lake effect snow areas trended upwards slightly to near the same. However, in Kansas City where no lake effect snow occurs, the snowfall trends had a direction of a downward trend (NOAA. NWS., 2022). This trend will have to be looked at in a broader sense of time to know if this prediction is accurate. Just fifty-one years is not enough time to make any kind of climatology indication that this study would be accurate. Over the next few days to months will be working toward adding more data to see if this is accurate. However, for now, it does bring an interesting hypothesis that the more parts per million added to the atmosphere could also increase lake effect snows through local weather patterns or make them stabilized as far as trends are concerned. For the best guess, local weather patterns as low-pressure tracks south of Chicago would deepen the lake effect snow potential. This would account for the increase in lake effect snow totals being higher in Chicago. In this case, the hypothesis remains intact that higher CO2 readings are followed by increased lake effect snows near low-pressure tracks. My university degree from HINU pertaining to liberal arts and some meteorology from the University of Kansas. However, the current degree I am working toward is a senior in Climate Change Science at Unity College.
References:
Sealevel. (September 12, 2022). Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels, 1800–present.
CO2 since 1800 (sealevel.info)
NOAA. NWS. (September 14, 2022). National Weather Service. Climate.