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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com |
“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear.
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
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Shane!
@lordturnip.bsky.social
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I thought that too, briefly, and then suddenly everything was on fire.
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Evil Count Erudite
@frozenpeas.bsky.social
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I live in Alberta. -40 in winter isn't unprecedented for us, but we hit it for a week *every* winter now, and routinely hit 40 at least once in summer--and that had not happened in my lifetime until a few years back. The mediation between extremes is gone and it took spring and fall with it.
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Max Tide
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And as we learned in bc this winter, you can get the worst of both worlds by swinging from super warm winter to super cold - with devastating results for food production. Plus pine beetle... We need cold. Plus. Don't run your heating experiment on my climate even if u think it'll be good! (Ffs)
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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“But our population is so small, we’re not contributing much anyways. Go talk to China!” they then say. Again, NO. We Canadians have some of the highest per capita emissions in the world, and our national cumulative emissions add up to 2% of the total. That’s enough to make us #9 globally.
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RedCatStudio
@redcatstudioart.bsky.social
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omg please no. It's already regularly 35C in montreal. We had 40C (thru humidity) a few weeks back!!!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aarne Granlund
@aarnegranlund.bsky.social
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Oh my, the old narrative of certain very northern countries getting net economic benefits from climate heating is still making the rounds.
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Jordan Carlson
@jordantcarlson.bsky.social
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I think I first saw it reported that central BC had already passed 2 C - and in some areas, 2.5 C - above preindustrial levels in 2018-2019? And the wildfires keep getting worse.
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Catarina ✦ Commissions open
@radiantlethe.bsky.social
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"Don't we want a little global warming?" ??????? Why would anyone even ask that as if it's even remotely a good thing?
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si oppington
@stillwellgray.ca
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Don't forget the part where the permafrost thaws and the land collapses.
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Josephinea197
@josephinea197.bsky.social
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Lutton.
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Coffee
@tiltedcoffee.bsky.social
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I thought this thread was going to be filled with toxic replies from climate change deniers. Colour me surprised and delighted. Thanks for sharing the links.
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king ned ludd
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I grew up in northern Alberta. Winters were long, deep, and cold. By christmas we were driving on hard-packed ice, -40 was common. I found a christmas card from my mom dated 2005. First christmas without snow in memory. Now snow at christmas is rare.
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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼
@kingofvagabonds.bsky.social
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I think the biggest misunderstanding of climate change comes down to how little most people know about complex systems and how shit isn't going to be distributed evenly. It's not just the temperature.
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Ketan Joshi
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Just adding a negative reply here to muck with your dataset: Katharine I think that the recent realistic version of the Lion King should never have been made. Sequels are fine but it should've been the 'cartoon CGI' style of Madagascar or Happy Feet.
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Manu 🌊🐳🐦⬛🏔️🌎
@manelcamacho.bsky.social
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Also, the continental weather makes summers warm over there. You really want 47C as here? With all the deaths we had, I doubt it. Extra points to the possible new distribution range for the Aedes aegipty after that. Ps: personal experience, it hurts! You don't want the hemorrhage one.
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JJ is tired
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I am from an area just south of the 55th parallel and I started seeing rapid changes nearly 20 years ago now. I grew up in a place where the mountains were entirely covered in snow year round, and went back after less than a decade away to find them bare in the summer and no snow in winter
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