Manitoba plans to use wind power to double or triple energy-generating capacity over next 2 decades
July 28, 2023 – CBC – Future hydro-electric dams likely too costly, despite growing demand for electricity.
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This summer is what climate change looks like, scientists say
July 25, 2023 – Politico – July’s record temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere driven by climate change, new study finds.
Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?
July 11, 2023 – New Yorker – The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around the world.
+Cutting back emissions no longer enough, climatologist says
July 27, 2023 – CBC – Canadians face some ‘big challenges’ when it comes to not only cutting back fossil fuel emissions that are driving rising temperatures but also learning to cope with the conditions we already have, says Dave Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. His comments come as a new analysis by Germany’s Leipzig University shows July is on track to be the hottest month ever recorded.
+We’re dangerously near some climate tipping points
July 27, 2023 – CBC – England and France could suddenly get a new, colder climate, as the ocean current that gives them their normally mild winters is close to collapse, a new study suggests.
The current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), crucial for warming Western Europe, could disappear as soon as 2025, according to research published this week in Nature Communications. And that would literally cast a sudden chill over the region.
+Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists
July 22, 2023 – BBC – A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.
+‘You’ve Got to Move Fast’: Science Learns to Quickly Link Extreme Weather and Climate
July 23, 2023 – Canadian Press – New research suggests the heat wave preceding the fire that levelled Lytton, B.C., was made 150 times more likely by climate change.
+Empowering Youth for Climate Action 2023 Award Winners – Learning for Sustainable Futures
July 17, 2023 – Two Winnipeg schools, Fort Richmond Collegiate, and H.C. Avery School, are among this year’s Youth for Climate Action Award Canada recipients.
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A vote for biodiversity
July 17, 203 – Winnpeg Free Press – Winnipeg city council voted in favour of signing the Montreal Pledge for Cities United in Action for Biodiversity.
+Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment
July 17, 2023 – ProRepublica – By late this century, according to a study published last month in the journal Nature Sustainability, 3 to 6 billion people, or between a third and a half of humanity, could be trapped outside of that zone, facing extreme heat, food scarcity and higher death rates, unless emissions are sharply curtailed or mass migration is accommodated.
+As tension with premiers grows, Guilbeault promises Ottawa won’t back down on clean energy policy
July 14, 2023 – National Observer – Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is facing virtually unprecedented opposition from almost every corner of the country as he works to implement a suite of clean energy policies.
+Campaign launched asking Manitoba parties to consider climate action
July 12, 2023 – Winnipeg Sun – “Consider Climate, Manitoba,” a campaign that asks politicians to integrate climate into all policy, budget and legal decision-making launched Wednesday.
+Farming for the climate future
July 7, 2023 – National Observer – Regenerative farming methods used at @LinnaeaFarm for decades to build soil, capture nutrients and promote biodiversity are reaping rewards as the climate crisis advances.
+Recent events that indicate Earth’s climate has entered uncharted territory
July 6, 2023 – Associated Press – As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said.
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