Canada In The Year 2060

“We knew records were going to be broken,” says Castellan. “But that doesn’t give you the reality of what was about to happen.” Temperature records typically break by tenths of degrees, like speed records for the 100-metre dash. At its apex, the heat dome that engulfed B.C. that month eclipsed some records by more than five degrees, driving temperatures up to 25 degrees beyond seasonal averages.

Across the region, roads buckled, car windows cracked and power cables melted. The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame. Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees. More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress. Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished, their organs exploding outside their bodies. Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks. Birds and insects went unnervingly silent. All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight. The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.

Then came the fires.

At night, he set up a tent in his backyard so his three young children’s bodies could cool down. When Victoria set a record high of 39.8 degrees, he tried not to think too hard about what that meant for the future his kids would inherit.

“There’s an apocalyptic feel to something that different,” says Castellan. “It’s like when you witness an eclipse. There’s that very strange sensation: all of a sudden it gets dark in the middle of the day, and the birds go quiet, and everything is strange. It was like that, on a multi-day level. It’s like the sun just grew in size.” |Read more https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/|

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Poilievre’s Conservative Party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments.

It is, some experts suggest, another sign that some conspiracy theories https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/davos-world-economic-forum-conspiracy-theories-1.6715233 are moving from the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking, as people’s distrust of government grows.

In speeches to Conservative supporters across Canada, Poilievre has promised that none of his ministers will attend the international organization’s conferences, including the annual meeting typically held in Davos, Switzerland.

“It’s far past time we rejected the globalist Davos elites and bring home the common sense of the common people,” said a Saturday fundraising email.

The Conservative Party also recently sent out mailers with a poll asking people to tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who they think the prime minister should stand with: working Canadians or the World Economic Forum.

The wording implies Trudeau’s cabinet is beholden to the latter.|Read more https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-world-economic-forum-rhetoric-1.6935294|

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Big Foreign Shareholders Control Climate Policy in Canada’s Biggest Fossil Companies: Study

A small subset of predominantly foreign, corporate owners hold substantial control over Canada’s oil and gas industry, and are unlikely to push for carbon cuts unless mandated to do so, a new study concludes.

That means it’s up to Canadian policy-makers to introduce new rules that compel big investors to actively support the low-carbon transition, say the authors of the study, A voice for change? Capital markets as a key leverage point in Canada’s fossil fuel industry https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629623002499

“A few large shareholders stand to gain substantially through monetizing the destruction of the world’s climate and will continue to engage with the industry in a manner that contradicts effective climate solutions,” the researchers write. “However, capital can also be used to reshape society if the power is regulated accordingly by financial supervisors.”

So far, the Canadian government has been a “leader and a laggard” in the transition to a low-carbon economy, say the authors. Despite ambitious emissions targets, they maintain, Ottawa continues to allow—and support—oil and gas production and expansion. |Read more https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/01/big-foreign-shareholders-control-climate-policy-in-canadas-biggest-fossil-companies-study/|

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