Confronting The Climate Emergency - An Urgent Call To The BC Government

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.

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Climate Change

Climate Science

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Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?

08/02/25

Author:

Laurie Adkin

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National Observer

When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Whiplash: How Big Swings in Wet and Dry Weather Fuel Infernos

03/02/25

Author:

Elizabeth Kolbert

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The Tyee

Fighting the Pacific Palisades blaze: California is ‘a poster child of what we expect to see more of in the future,’ says Swain. Photo by Ethan Swope, the Associated Press.

Feb. 3, 2025

A global climate trend set the stage for LA’s fires, explains scientist Daniel Swain.

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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals

26/01/25

Author:

Patrick Greenfield

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The Guardian

Near Newtok in Alaska, melting permafrost is causing the Ninglick River to widen and erode its banks. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Jan. 21, 2025

Critical CO₂ stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.

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Recent Data & Theories on Ice Melt and Sea-Level Rise

17/12/24

Author:

Dan Drollette Jr

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

July 15, 2024

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AI predicts Earth's peak warming: Hottest years will likely shatter recent records

11/12/24

Author:

Josie Garthwaite, Stanford University

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phys.org

Probability of peak warming in response to cumulative emissions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111832

Dec. 10, 2024

Researchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.

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