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Drops of water falling from the melting ice.

Opinion: Facing up to the truth about climate change

If we want consumers to accept the judgment of science, we need to return the favour

By Lisa Guenther August 9, 2017

Those pants look terrible on you. Perhaps you’ve experienced that awkward moment when you try to stop a friend from committing a fashion faux pas. If so, you may have agonized how to word your concerns to avoid offence, while still getting your message across. It’s a potentially volatile moment that perfectly captures how I

Opinion, Weather

You’re getting warmer…

By Alan Guebert June 20, 2017

In a White House Rose Garden ceremony June 1, President Donald J. Trump announced he would pull the U.S. from the Paris treaty on global climate change. As he colourfully noted, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” True, but he was elected to represent Paris, IL; Paris, KY; Paris, ID;

Comment, Opinion

No easy answers to greenhouse gas emissions

We’ll all have to be part of the solution or we’ll be part of the problem

By David Rourke November 21, 2016

The solution to pollution is dilution is an old saying, but unfortunately there is a limit to its truth. For well over a century we have been mining, drilling and burning fossil fuels as if Mother Nature intended us to. One gallon of gas can give the equivalent of 600-man hours of labour. Coal and

Canadian scientist Robert Sandford says there is an urgent need to address and adapt to climate change and its effects on the hydrological cycle.

News

Western Canada has crossed into an entirely new hydro-climatic cycle, scientist says

Climate change is accelerating hydrology at an even faster pace than earlier thought, making for rapid-fire change

By Lorraine Stevenson November 18, 2016

A Canadian scientist says those trying to protect farmland from future floods, and bolster local resilience against other extremes of hydrologic climate change must do so with a sense of urgency. “I hope you’ll see beyond urgency to the emergency we face if we do not act in a timely and effective manner to protect

A map included in the new online climate atlas of the Prairie Climate Centre depicts the average number of +30 C days between 2051 to 2080 if a high carbon future unfolds under a ‘business-as-usual’ carbon emissions scenario.

Crops, Weather

Zooming in on climate change impacts

A new atlas outlines climate change scenarios from a local perspective

By Lorraine Stevenson June 7, 2016

Municipal officials and planners can now catch a glimpse of the future for their jurisdictions under different climate change scenarios. A new climate altas released by the Prairie Climate Centre (PCC) outlines how living and growing conditions in Western Canada might be affected, including a worse-case scenario showing desert-like summer heat enduring for weeks by

Due to a production error, the temperature table posted here on April 4 contained a line incorrectly identifying temperatures after 1930-39 as 15-year averages. The correct table appears here.

Comment

A look back at historical Brandon temperatures

WMO statements on global warming aren’t borne out by local data

By Brian Ransom April 4, 2016

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency, says that 2015 is the hottest year on record and that 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have been this century. What an alarming statement. Yet it is contrary to personal experience growing up and living most of my life in southwestern Manitoba. So

Brian Amiro and Karin Wittenberg look over their presentation at Crop Connect in Winnipeg.

News

Prairies to play pivotal role in future food production

Climate change will provide both challenges and opportunities for Prairie producers by the year 2050

By Shannon VanRaes March 4, 2016

What will Prairie agriculture look like in the year 2050? That’s something a diverse group of experts and researchers set out to determine in a Green Paper presented at the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, titled Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. “Our future includes change from a number of perspectives, we understand some better than others,

Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips says weather has become increasingly erratic across the globe.

Crops, Local news

Get ready for more ‘weather whiplash’

Unlike other regions, Manitoba may be able to benefit from climate change

By Jennifer Paige February 23, 2016

As climate change warms the globe, Manitoba may be well poised to become an agriculture superpower because of its proven ability to adapt, says the senior climatologist with Environment Canada. “I am optimistic about the future of agriculture in the Prairies because I have always been fascinated and intrigued with the ingenuity, resourcefulness and survivability

Weather, Weather Vane

Global and regional temperature anomalies

Globally, 2015 was the warmest year,  at 0.9 C above the 20th-century average

By Daniel Bezte February 1, 2016

In my previous article, I finished by saying I would hopefully be able to continue our look back at 2015 by exploring some of the top weather stories from our part of the world. Between then and now, both NOAA and NASA released their 2015 global temperature data and I figured we should spend some

Crops, Weather

Agro-climate data is a ‘mismatch’ with overall trends

Farmers need improved data on agro-climate to make sense of climate change, says U of M soil scientist

By Lorraine Stevenson January 26, 2016

Numbers don’t lie but they’re presently a real puzzle when it comes to making sense of climate change and what’s happening on the farm, says a University of Manitoba professor. Despite warming trends of recent years and forecasts of a continued increase, analysis of agro-climate data shows the last spring frosts are only marginally earlier,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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