Tag: Extreme weather
Canada Is On Fire: Tell Justin Trudeau To Act Like It
Unprecedented heatwaves and devastating wildfires are sweeping the country. Canada is on fire because of the climate crisis. We cannot allow this to become...
Accelerating Climate Impacts Setting Off Alarm Bells Worldwide
In British Columbia, over 300 fires are burning around the province. The province has declared a state of emergency, with “40 evacuation orders affecting...
What do Heat Waves, Wildfires and Banks Have in Common?
The recent leak of a draft of the next IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warns that recovery from climate breakdown may be...
The Tip of the Climate Change Iceberg
A new Natural Resources Canada report, Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report, looks at the costs of climate change. In 2020, extreme...
California, North America’s Garden, In Severe Drought
'Persistent ‘severe’ drought is having widespread negative impacts on California and other western states," writes Dana Nuccitelli in a recent article previously published in Yale...
Canada Needs A Climate Emergency Alliance To Deal With The Climate Crisis
When the next federal election is called—expected anytime during the next six months—climate change will be the top issue right after COVID. And Canadians...
Brutally Hot 2020 Ends Warmest Decade Ever
The climate data is in and shows that 2020 was the warmest year on record tied with 2016. Carbon Brief explains why the year...
You Have A Calling. An Epic Calling. A Heroic Calling.
A recent piece in The Cut shows how Climate Psychologist Margaret Klein “gets it done”. Margaret talks about waking up to the climate crisis...
Beds are Burning – The Australian Wildfires
'Beds Are Burning' is from the album 'Songs For Australia'. The album is a collection of songs recorded to bring global attention to the...
It’s the 2020s And We’re In A Climate Emergency OMG Moment
In this Oped, first published in Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, Stephen Leahy maintains that "the climate emergency should be an OMG moment for Canadians...