The New Yorker Though it’s tough to pin any particular disaster on climate change, in the case of Fort McMurray the link is pretty compelling. Story here.
Times Colonist PinP photo Canada’s symbolic signing of the Paris climate agreements Friday was a hopeful and necessary step. Yet symbolism and rhetoric need to be followed by urgent action here at home if we are serious about avoiding a catastrophic four to six degrees Celsius of warming. Story here.
The ENERGY MIX In a remarkable analysis distributed by email Thursday, Dale Marshall, National Program Manager at Environmental Defence, connects the tragedy unfolding in Fort McMurray with climate disasters and dislocations around the world. Story here.
MACLEAN’S Smoke from the Fort McMurray fires has now spread over the eastern Canadian prairies and much of the US. NOAA map. Experts say forest fires are more frequent, and more intense, due to climate change. Story here.
BILLINGS GAZETTE An oil and natural gas field in the western United States is largely responsible for a global uptick of the air pollutant ethane, according to a new study. More here.
by Larry Powell Well, another Manitoba election has come and gone. And we got the change we wanted. Or did we? To me, it still seems like the goal of “evidence-based” policy-making, often promised by politicians of every stripe, remains as elusive as ever. Take climate change, for example.
CBC News Alberta has had many severe wildfires over the years. While none has been quite as bad as Fort McMurray, the smoke from this one in 2011 near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, could be seen from space. (NASA photo.) Thousands of people are fleeing Fort McMurray as wildfire leaps highway and into city. More here.
NationalObserver Alberta tar sands. Howl Arts Collective Last week our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, galloped onto the world stage to once again promise big cuts in Canada's climate pollution. Will he be able to deliver? Story here.