So I was disappointed when that misery coincided with the Vancouver Sun’s publication of an op-ed column by University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick claiming we only have a “vague inkling” that we “might” be in a climate emergency a “decade from now.”
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June 2019 was the hottest on record across the globe, says NOAA | CBC News
record, according to the latest monthly global climate report released
on Thursday by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The
report said that the average global temperature in June was 0.94
C above the 20th-century average of 15.5 C and marks the
414th consecutive month in which temperatures were above
the 20th-century average. Nine of the 10 hottest Junes over the last 140
years have occurred since 2010, NOAA said.
Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as the Hawaii and U.S. Gulf of Mexico regions experienced their hottest Junes on record.
What Elizabeth May wants to do with Canadian oil – Macleans.ca
Q: And it seems like our politics very often turn on questions of climate and the environment. It’s how Stéphane Dion became Liberal leader. It was central to Stephen Harper’s majority government. And it’s one of the key questions on which the Liberals will be judged in the fall. And yet, there often doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of progress on climate.
A: There’s none. We slide backwards, really.
The climate crisis: These are Canada’s worst-case scenarios – Macleans.ca
This article is
part of a special climate change issue in advance of the federal
election. This collection of stories offers a comprehensive look at
where Canada currently stands, what could be done to address the issue
and what the consequences might be if this country continues with half
measures.
complete overhaul initiated by the previous NDP government before being
handed off to the United Conservative Party when it won the spring
election.
Given the past comments of Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney it seems unlikely that a new curriculum will have an increased focus on climate change.
In 2017, Kenney attacked the proposed curriculum review
that was going to add focus on climate change and Indigenous history.
At the time, he said the NDP was engaging in “social engineering” in
order to impose “political correctness” on students.