Right out of the gate, Justin Trudeau is balking at serious action on climate change. Speaking on Sunday night, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, suggested that using federal money to help relocate communities affected by flooding was a possibility. “Once we secure the situation through this spring flooding season, we
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Dead Wild Roses: Floating Houses – A Solution?
Good chunks of Eastern Canada are getting the flood treatment. “In Canada, this spring’s rainfall, compounded by melting snow, has led to states of emergency and evacuations in areas across Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.” The people who have built or bought their homes on floodplains are currently getting
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Second ‘Thousand-Year’ Storm In Two Years
Try telling the people of Ellicott City, Maryland, that climate change is a hoax. The Washington Post, in a detailed analysis of this flood, has this to say about the role climate change played: Climate change did not “cause” this thunderstorm complex. However, climate change has probably altered the larger
Continue readingAlberta Politics: ‘NRA Strategy’ to block connection of climate change dots won’t work when the climate disaster’s in B.C.
As fear rises in British Columbia this week along with the province’s record floodwaters, the likelihood B.C. voters will connect the dots between man-made climate change and “natural” catastrophes is rising too. Politically speaking, this is not exactly good news for the determined advocates in Alberta and Ottawa of aggressive
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will We Ignore The Evidence Until The End?
Yesterday, Southern Ontario saw some pretty wild weather, with winds reaching 110 km per hour. Power outages were widespread, trees were felled at an alarming rate, Pearson Airport had to shut down, and at least two people lost their lives. I have not yet checked my roof for damage. Meanwhile,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And They’re Calling It "Medicane"
Climate change has brought a new severe weather event to the Mediterranean. It’s being called the “medicane.” Put simply it’s a hurricane, akin to what is routinely experienced in the Caribbean, only it develops in the warming water conditions of the Mediterranean. You can blame a ‘medicane’ for this week’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Weather Porn
Since few seem willing to confront root causes, I guess that’s what these stories of weather disasters are becoming. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Scenes From The Apocalypse
Just another day in the life of our warming planet: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Yet Another ‘100-Year Event’
This one was in the traditionally water-challenged area of Phoenix, Arizona.For additional commentary on our worsening climate, check out The Mound’s post.Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Power And The Glory
The power is nature’s, and the glory is the human capacity for noble, courageous action, as you will see. Two bad that in the collective human psyche, we can’t have more of the latter and less of a thirst for the former.Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: May This Day Never Come
I pray we never get to the day when scenes like the following become so commonplace that we regard them with only the passing interest we might today express in a rocket launch, and not the shock, awe and humbling that they undoubtedly merit:Recommend …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We Need To Do What These Guys Are Doing
“These guys” are the Brits. What they’re doing is taking an inventory of their transportation infrastructure to assess its vulnerability to severe storm events caused by ‘early onset’ climate change. The good news is that the Brits get it. They know climate change is real and that they’re going to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Today in Flash Flooding News
We’ve always lived with spring flooding caused by rapid melting of winter snowpack. People along the Red River know full well how that works. Today, however, flooding isn’t just a seasonal event and it doesn’t always have to do with winter snows. Now we get flash floods where storm clouds
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Greetings from Global Warming. Now Pay Up or Else.
It doesn’t matter how certain they are that climate change is a hoax. They’re still going to have to pay up. The U.S. federal flood insurance programme (private sector insurers said ‘adios’ long ago) is bringing home the reality of climate change in the form of massive premium increases for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When "Biblical" Becomes Normal
The word being bandied about now to describe Colorado’s raging flash floods is “Biblical”. That’s a step up from “once a century”but some are saying “new normal” might be more accurate. Andrew Freedman at Climate Central …notes that this lethal catastrophic event is consistent with the increasing frequency of extreme
Continue readingLeDaro: Fukuchiyama, Japan: Flooding
A residential area in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, flooded because of Typhoon Man-yi. – Kyodo News via AP It looks Japan is not getting much break lately. Too many natural disasters.
Continue readingLeDaro: Heavy rains and flooding is an international phenomena – picture of the day
Here is a picture from Russia. SHORING UP: A man walked near sandbags that were piled up Sunday in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, to protect the area from flooding. (Bobulev Sergey/ITAR-TASS/Zuma Press)WSJ
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Minister’s F-Bomb illustrates the lamentable state of Alberta’s political discourse
A cheerful looking Doug Griffiths, back when he was running against Alison Redford for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party. Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. Many of us were asking ourselves yesterday afternoon if Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths had really dropped an F-Bomb on the Wildrose Party?
Continue readingLeDaro: U. S. : Forest fires and flooding
U.S. South-west has uncontrollable fires because of lack of rain and dry forests – millions of people are displaced. In the North-east there is too much rain and cities and towns are flooded, millions displaced and some deaths as well. I don’t know if U.S ever faced this kind of
Continue readingLeDaro: Severe weather: Flooding in Colorado and other U.S states
We are having severe weather throughout North America. Colorado and some other U.S. states are hard hit. Are these indications of climate change? Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There were rivers of muddy water filled with debris roaring past houses and down ..
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