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Alaska's warming ocean is putting food and jobs at risk, scientists say
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/us/alaska-sea-ice-wxc/index.html?no-st=1561959906

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/a...ce-melt-falls-to-record-lows-for-early-april/

Arctic is warmest it's been in 10,000 years, study suggests
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-warmest-in-10000-years-1.5094392

Yukon warmest it has been in 13,600 years
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190410120606.htm

Pentagon warns of risk of Chinese submarines in the Arctic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-arctic-military-submarines-pentagon-1.5123287

With radical Arctic change comes spawning cod in new northern waters
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2019/05/radical-change-comes-spawning-cod-arctic-waters

Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...s-havoc-communities-and-ecosystems-180972317/

Northern Barents Sea Shifting from Arctic to Atlantic Climate
https://jonaa.org/content/2018/11/29/northern-barents-sea

Greenland Lost More Than 2 Billion Tons Of Ice In Just ONE DAY Last Week
https://www.iflscience.com/environm...illion-tons-of-ice-in-just-one-day-last-week/

Permafrost In Canada Is Thawing 70 Years Earlier Than Expected
https://www.iflscience.com/environm...da-is-thawing-70-years-earlier-than-expected/

Coastal erosion in the Arctic intensifies global warming
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180910081538.htm

Exploring permafrost coastal erosion in the Arctic
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-exploring-permafrost-coastal-erosion-arctic.html

Salmon are showing up in the Arctic in record numbers
https://thenarwhal.ca/salmon-are-showing-up-in-the-arctic-in-record-numbers/

Pacific Salmon in the Arctic: Harbingers of Change
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272567234_Pacific_Salmon_in_the_Arctic_Harbingers_of_Change

A giant heat dome over Alaska is set to threaten all-time temperature records
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...is-set-threaten-all-time-temperature-records/
 
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A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That it Was Funding Climate Change Denialism
https://portside.org/2019-05-19/maj...cy-filing-shows-it-was-funding-climate-change

Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...to-block-climate-change-policies-infographic/

Time to stop blaming “foreign funded” environmentalists for the oil industry’s woes
https://www.wcel.org/blog/time-stop-blaming-foreign-funded-environmentalists-oil-industrys-woes

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-corporations-shifted-the-blame-for-climate-change/

White House blocks testimony on climate change for not following administration's views

https://www.axios.com/white-house-b...ews-e1d26240-955e-4cf0-a087-9c1d61440a8b.html

Week 125: Trump to Climate Scientists: Don’t Write Anything Down!

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/week-125-trump-climate-scientists-dont-write-anything-down

Why a group of US state senators are being hunted by police
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48737711

How the oil industry created a ‘deep state’ in Canada
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/is-there-a-deep-state-in-albertas-oil-industry/

First, Climate Change, Now the Global Extinction Crisis: Industry-Paid Hacks Deny Science to Congress
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/05/...marc-morano-patrick-moore-biodiversity-report

First-of-its-kind study quantifies the effects of political lobbying on likelihood of climate policy enactment
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-first-of-its-kind-quantifies-effects-political-lobbying.html

Exxon predicted in 1982 exactly how high global carbon emissions would be today
https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/
 
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Planet is entering ‘new climate regime’ with ‘extraordinary’ heat waves intensified by global warming, study says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...-heat-wave-it-may-be-starting-all-over-again/

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https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaau4373
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Current greenhouse gas mitigation ambition is consistent with ~3°C global mean warming above preindustrial levels. There is a clear need to strengthen mitigation ambition to stabilize the climate at the Paris Agreement goal of warming of less than 2°C. We specify the differences in city-level heat-related mortality between the 3°C trajectory and warming of 2° and 1.5°C. Focusing on 15 U.S. cities where reliable climate and health data are available, we show that ratcheting up mitigation ambition to achieve the 2°C threshold could avoid between 70 and 1980 annual heat-related deaths per city during extreme events (30-year return period). Achieving the 1.5°C threshold could avoid between 110 and 2720 annual heat-related deaths. Population changes and adaptation investments would alter these numbers. Our results provide compelling evidence for the heat-related health benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5°C in the United States.

Concurrent 2018 hot extremes across Northern1Hemisphere due to human-induced climate change
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2019EF001189
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Extremely high temperatures pose an immediate threat to humans and ecosystems. In17recent years, many regions on land and in the ocean experienced heatwaves with dev-18astating impacts that would have been highly unlikely without human-induced climate19change. Impacts are particularly severe when heatwaves occur in regions with high ex-20posure of people or crops. The recent 2018 spring-to-summer season was characterized21by several major heat and dry extremes. On daily average between May and July 201822about 22% of the populated and agricultural areas north of 30 degrees latitude experi-23encedconcurrenthot temperature extremes. Events of this type were unprecedented prior24to 2010, while similar conditions were experienced in the 2010 and 2012 boreal summers.25Earth System Model (ESM) simulations of present-day climate, that is, at around +1◦C26global warming, also display an increase of concurrent heat extremes. Based on ESM sim-27ulations we show that it isvirtually certain(using IPCC calibrated uncertainty language)28that the 2018 North-Hemispheric concurrent heat events would not have occurred with-29out human-induced climate change. Our results further reveal that the average high-exposure30area projected to experience concurrent warm and hot spells in the Northern Hemisphere31increases by about 16% per additional +1◦C of global warming. A strong reduction in32fossil fuel emissions is paramount to reduce the risks of unprecedented global-scale heat-33wave impacts.
 
Maybe a good extinction event is what the earth needs/wants. Don't think we are capable of stopping it. Maybe Justin's carbon Tax is the answer. Or banning plastic bags or plastic straws???? The Billionaire selling tickets on his space ship could be the answer? Has any one been to China or India, does anyone really believe what Canada does makes a difference? Except fool the dumbed downs who think more tax to Trudeau will some how help save the planet?

HM
 
Once again don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.
Canada is doing just fine.

Note the following actual facts,

Trends in Historical Daytime Highs in Canada 1888-2017


https://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/temp_report.pdf

e a few points that you might notice in the graphs and tables that follow.
1. There is a tradeoff between the number of available stations and the length of record. There are 30 stations with data back to 1888
and 267 stations with data back to 1978.
2. Over the past 130 years the median warming rate in the average daytime high is about 0.1 degrees per decade or 1 degree per
century.
3. Over long samples there is little polar amplification (increased warming with latitude) but it does appear in fall and winter months
in more recent subsamples.
4. Over the past 100 years, warming has been stronger in winter than summer or fall. October has cooled slightly. The Annual
average daytime high has increased by about 0.1 degrees per decade. 72 percent of stations did not exhibit statistically significant
warming or cooling.
5. Since 1939 there has been virtually no change in the median July and August daytime highs across Canada, and October has cooled
slightly.
6. There are 247 stations with data back to 1958. However as the time span decreases the range of observed trends greatly expands.
All months exhibit median warming but with much wider variability.
 
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Western red cedars are dying of drought in Vancouver and scientists say it’s one more portent of climate change

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2...y-its-one-more-portent-of-climate-change.html

How climate change is making B.C.’s wildfire season hotter, longer, drier
https://thenarwhal.ca/how-climate-change-is-making-b-c-s-wildfire-season-hotter-longer-dryer/

Rivers suffer from drought during salmon migration
https://hashilthsa.com/news/2019-06-25/rivers-suffer-drought-during-salmon-migration
 
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Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist who wrote a book called "Economics Does Not Lie" (and supposedly by reflection neither do economists and the PR machinery that are employed by big coal & oil lie neither) is a source that only one who believes that climate change denial is a religion would use to try to deny the implications of the many hundreds of peer-reviewed science papers from the world's many thousands of climate scientists and researchers, IMHO.

And even within their own field of economics (and climate science is not their field) - economists are very poor examples of authorities on theories including economic theory - been numerous depressions, stock market & mortgage crashes and recessions and the like.

I doubt if anyone up North would give Sorman any notice. Only those few removed from what is real and who wish to believe the dream that our current economic system has not had far-reaching impacts still believe this nonsense.
 
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