“The Premier can’t give your kids a safe classroom, but he can put more police on the street to arrest them,” Toronto city councillor Gord Perks said in a tweet.
UCP’s ‘anti-Alberta’ inquiry may be little help to energy industry.
Albertans might be forgiven for altogether forgetting about the public inquiry into “anti-Alberta energy campaigns.”
It’s been more than a year since Premier Jason Kenney announced the inquiry and it’s been more than a month since the original deadline passed for independent commissioner Steve Allan to submit his final report. And yet, it’s been eerily quiet on this front.
A closer look, however, suggests that this whole process is becoming the farce that many critics feared was inevitable from the moment it was announced.
Ice Fjord Greenland Sermilik Iceberg Arctic Sea. Photo by www.maxpixel.net
The most recent survey shows that the Greenland ice sheet has been shedding one tonne of ice – every minute. 525,000 metric tonnes every year. That’s a massive amount of fresh water that pours into the salt water, the seas around Greenland.
Sea level rise is a real menace. Greenland is one source, a major to be sure, but there are many others. This is a real worry in some places, including any place that has a sea coast. You know where they don’t much care about sea level rise? Alberta is one. No skin off their backsides. Sea level rise only brings “tidewater” that much closer to Athabasca. Hey, what’s not to like?
Source: The Disaffected Lib: Tick-Tock. One Million Tonnes – Per Minute
‘Our Final Warning’ Offers a Preview of Hothouse Earth | The Tyee:
This is where we are now, one degree above the pre-industrial average global temperature of roughly 1850 to 1900. Greenland’s ice sheet is turning blue with meltwater lakes and streams. Half the Arctic sea ice is gone. Antarctica’s glaciers are sliding faster into the sea, and mountain glaciers everywhere are shrinking.
Extreme rainfall and flooding are becoming routine. So are heatwaves and wildfires like those currently afflicting California. Meanwhile, “ocean heatwaves” create dead zones because warm water holds too little oxygen for sea life.
Canada, like other signatories to the Paris Agreement, is committed to limit warming to 1.5 C — in effect, accepting all this as the new status quo. But as Lynas observes, no one is slowing emissions in the slightest. The Keeling curve, which measures atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, shows CO2 is now at 412.88 parts per million, and rising. So the global temperature must eventually rise to:
‘Our Final Warning’ Offers a Preview of Hothouse Earth | The Tyee: One degreeThis is where we are now, one degree above the pre-industrial average global temperature of roughly 1850 to 1900. Greenland’s ice sheet is turning blue with meltwater lakes and streams. Half the Arctic sea ice is gone. Antarctica’s glaciers are sliding faster into the sea, and mountain glaciers everywhere are shrinking.Extreme rainfall and flooding are becoming routine. So are heatwaves and wildfires like those currently afflicting California. Meanwhile, “ocean heatwaves” create dead zones because warm water holds too little oxygen for sea life.Canada, like other signatories to the Paris Agreement, is committed to limit warming to 1.5 C — in effect, accepting all this as the new status quo. But as Lynas observes, no one is slowing emissions in the slightest. The Keeling curve, which measures atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, shows CO2 is now at 412.88 parts per million, and rising. So the global temperature must eventually rise to:Two degrees….Read More
‘Our Final Warning’ Offers a Preview of Hothouse Earth | The Tyee
This is where we are now, one degree above the pre-industrial average global temperature of roughly 1850 to 1900. Greenland’s ice sheet is turning blue with meltwater lakes and streams. Half the Arctic sea ice is gone. Antarctica’s glaciers are sliding faster into the sea, and mountain glaciers everywhere are shrinking.
Extreme rainfall and flooding are becoming routine. So are heatwaves and wildfires like those currently afflicting California. Meanwhile, “ocean heatwaves” create dead zones because warm water holds too little oxygen for sea life.
Canada, like other signatories to the Paris Agreement, is committed to limit warming to 1.5 C — in effect, accepting all this as the new status quo. But as Lynas observes, no one is slowing emissions in the slightest. The Keeling curve, which measures atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, shows CO2 is now at 412.88 parts per million, and rising. So the global temperature must eventually rise to: