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Melting glaciers are a clear sign of climate change and global warming

Jumping off the global warming fence

If we take action now, the worst that happens is we clean up our planet

By Daniel Bezte February 15, 2017

Over the years, some weather articles I’ve written have provoked or inspired various amounts of comments. What surprised me was the number of emails I received about the top weather events from around the world in 2016. What was surprising, in particular, was that several of the emails accused me of leaning too heavily toward

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

Weather

Last five years were hottest on record

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News November 8, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had

A portion of a melting glacier calves off into the ocean. Photo: Thinkstock

Weather

Arctic sea ice retreat pinned to individuals’ emissions-study

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News November 7, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – Drive your car 4,000 km and its greenhouse gas emissions will melt three square metres (32 square feet) of ice on the Arctic Ocean, according to a new study that found a direct link between carbon dioxide and the shrinking ice. Examining long-term trends for ice floating on the ocean since the 1950s,

Wetland expansion due to heavier rainfall seems to be fuelling higher methane emissions, along with agricultural activity.

News

Floods and farms fuel jump in methane emissions — researchers

Microbial sources of methane emissions are seen as the most likely source and are common to wetlands and farming

By Megan Rowling, Reuters October 19, 2016

A sharp increase in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Earth’s atmosphere since 2007 is the result of higher emissions from biological sources such as rice paddies, cattle and swamps rather than fossil fuels, researchers recently announced. Methane traps heat, contributing to global warming. In 2014 the growth rate of methane in the atmosphere

Ice melts on the Aletsch Glacier in Fiesch, Switzerland, August 12, 2015. One of Europe’s biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch coils 23 km (14 miles) through the Swiss Alps — and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change.

News, Weather

Climate change could cross key threshold in a decade — scientists

Exceeding global warming targets could mean drastic action is necessary

By Laurie Goering, Reuters October 5, 2016

The planet could pass a key target on world temperature rise in about a decade, prompting accelerating loss of glaciers, steep declines in water availability, worsening land conflicts and deepening poverty, scientists said last week. Last December, 195 nations agreed to try to hold world temperature rise to “well below” 2 C, with an aim of

A supercomputer-modeled simulation showing the expected impact of global warming on Earth’s surface temperatures. (Photo courtesy NASA)

Crops, Weather

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth’s temperatures almost 200 years ago, as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, researchers wrote in a recent journal

Livestock, Weather

After scorching heat, Earth likely to get respite in 2017

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News August 17, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — The Earth is likely to get relief in 2017 from record scorching temperatures that bolstered governments’ resolve last year in reaching a deal to combat climate change, scientists said Wednesday. July was the hottest single month since records began in the 19th century, driven by greenhouse gases and an El Nino

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

Daily Network News

China trade deal falls short: Conservatives

Chinese importer buys Canadian canola after Carney visit

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

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