From forest fires and landslides in BC, to forest fires and floods in Russia, to devastating floods around Asia, to a giant iceberg breaking off the Greenland ice sheet, very few journalists care to make the linkage between the trend towards more of these events, and our failure to enact policies to reduce global warming pollution.
Environment Canada, meanwhile, has a couple of interesting maps showing both how the Canadian national average spring temperature this year was 4.1 degrees above average (below), and also a disturbing time trend map showing temperature rise across the country over time.
Our policy makers must awake from their dangerous slumber on this file and instead put in place aggressive policies to transition us to a clean energy economy, as Portugal is doing, for example. But, first we'll have to convince them that the survival of our civilization is somehow more important than the long form census.
Matt Price
Policy Director
Posts
