🧵#TeachableMoments: #Jasper & All That Smoke
Life comes at you pretty fast these days but when Alberta has a week like last week it's clear that if we don't stop & take stock it'll pass with the typical partisan food fights & nothing learned. That's not good enough /1 #yyc #abpoli
We keep breaking all the wrong kinds of records. This week was shocking to live through it but nobody that values science, data & facts should be surprised. Scientists warned us for a long time. It's here now. It's no longer academic & should never've been "political." /4
#Climate #Jasper #Wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/climate-warming-copernicus-record-united-nations-1.7224438
The planet’s string of record-breaking temperatures has continued for a full year, with May marking the 12th consecutive month for which its average temperature set a new record for the month. The grim milestone prompted a call for urgent action from the United Nations.
Speaking of #Jasper's #TeachableMoments quite a lot of Canada's national media are #climate disasters all on their own. This is an actual #GlobeAndMail headline 🙃
The Climate equivalent of one of Canada's supposed top newspapers advising lung cancer victims to not quit smoking, just get more exercise. Disastrously bad stuff. The best that can be said about it is it's behind a paywall so at least nobody will read it /19
#abpoli #cdnpoli #wildfire
Speaking of walking #Climate disasters you really have to perform #Olympic-level somersaults not to mention Climate at all in this article but David Staples is indeed a man who can perform somersaults in his longterm role of NOT covering the greatest challenge of our time /20
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Finally, you're not powerless in the face of climate disasters. #ClimateHubYYC is one of the groups that pushes back, right here at ground zero for #BigOil in Canada. Join us. Consider donating if you can afford it. We can't do it alone. /25
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Calm down. It's an opinion piece. I disagree with it too, but news media should not just be echo chambers for our own views.
@Bentley The effects aren't linear. 0.1℃ now causes more damage than 0.1℃ a decade ago. Conversely, 0.1℃ prevented now has a much greater benefit and cost savings than 0.1℃ prevented in a decade.
Unfortunately, the people who write this crap are only concerned about the next fiscal quarter. They plan to be retired and rich in the next decade. Either that or they have really undervalued their souls.
@Bentley This is an excellent point about USians too - why don't we act like a majority? How do we act like a majority?
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