Water and Climate

I looked at an article about the effects of climate change on the Adirondacks as well as the general Northeast and found some interesting projections for the region mostly about water. As we have learned in our class, water, including lakes, bogs, wetlands, etc., encompasses a huge amount of the park, and thus changes to water in the park would have huge impacts on not only aquatic systems but the general ecosystem of the Adirondacks. The article talks about an increase in evapotranspiration rates of plants due to the increase in temperature that comes with global climate change. This increase in water leaving plants will ultimately reduce the amount of water in the aquatic ecosystems of the Adirondacks, especially bogs apparently. The idea that this article puts forth is that the ecology of the Adirondacks will look different due to climate change but the effects of climate change may not all be bad. The article proposes that less water in the Adirondacks will mean less runoff into bodies of water, and thus less eutrophication of water systems. This article made me rethink my position on climate change as a whole and begs the question: is climate change bad? I used to jump straight to "yes" but I'm finding that it's a much more complicated answer than that.