Has the situation in Canada made you more concerned about climate change?

As a mechanic that worked on AC and refrigeration systems I was always interested in weather and climate. I recall noticing back in the early 1980s that the annual weather seemed to be changing, I hadn't yet heard of the Climate Change Theory that is becoming Climate Change Fact, nowadays.
 
Nathan said:
As a mechanic that worked on AC and refrigeration systems I was always interested in weather and climate. I recall noticing back in the early 1980s that the annual weather seemed to be changing, I hadn't yet heard of the Climate Change Theory that is becoming Climate Change Fact, nowadays.
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It definitely is Nathan. Something has to be done really soon.
 

Yes, especially hearing about that hellish heat wave they've been having in the Pacific Northwest. I know from the years I lived there that they are not used to that kind of climate, and I can just imagine the devastation to the forests and animal life.
 
Don M. said:
There is little doubt that the climate is warming...especially in the past 100 years. Most of the cause is probably related to the increased use of fossil fuels, and a rapidly increasing population. Spikes like this recent heat wave in the NW get a lot of peoples attention, but that concern usually dissipates once Fall arrives. If this current heat and drought triggers massive forest fires in that region in coming weeks, the people in those areas will face even greater dangers.

Here's a good article showing the global temperature patterns over the past 1000 years, and it is pretty obvious that things are changing at a pace never seen before. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/global-warming/last-1000-years

While most people agree that it's getting warmer, and that human activity bears the brunt of the blame, there are NO Easy solutions. Would people give up their vehicles? Would people quit heating and cooling their houses? Would people accept a limit on how many children they can have? We would almost have to suddenly return to a Middle Ages lifestyle in order to slow down these changes. Even doing that would probably have little short term effect, as it would take decades, or longer before there was any appreciable change.

I'm afraid we're stuck with what we have, and what is coming. Doing the best to prepare and adapt is likely all we can do.
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The answer to most of your questions is a resounding 'No' from most of the world. The spoiled first world won't, and the rest of the world is trying to play catch up to our bad habits and are largely succeeding thanks to tech that makes it easy to order stuff made on the cheap using lots of fossil fuels in the process.
 
I was on a site called Eons. I was in a group where we monitored and discussed climate change, extreme weather events and the like. Probably about 12 or 13 years ago, I predicted that we would start seeing more severe weather and more frequent disasters. Despite all the talk back then about global warming, it wasn't until a couple of years later that scientists publicly said the same thing. I have a couple of friends who don't believe global warming (aka climate change) but I always have. This is the first I'm hearing about the situation in Canada, so I looked it up. Here's a link to the article. Terrible situation; their death toll was worst than the one out west!
https://www.india.com/news/world/ca...s-celsius-over-200-dead-schools-shut-4779706/
 
Yup, remember Carl Sagan. I agree that things are changing and changing faster now. Out in western Canada right now they are going through a heat wave like never before, temps up to 48 and 49c...drought along with some fires. Here we are getting rain almost daily.
 
Don M. said:
Here's a good article showing the global temperature patterns over the past 1000 years, and it is pretty obvious that things are changing at a pace never seen before. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/global-warming/last-1000-years
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Don, thanks for the link to this article. The last line spells it out pretty clearly.

"Only by adding the human-caused increase in greenhouse gas concentrations are the models able to explain the unprecedented warmth we are currently experiencing."

Al Gore explained this several years ago: We are in a pile of :poop:.

FWIW, I've noticed that some people get "climate" confused with "weather." Weather is what happens today, tomorrow, yesterday, etc., while climate is about overall long-term changes.
 
Sunny said:
and I can just imagine the devastation to the forests and animal life.
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The young animals and birds aren’t doing well. The rescue centers are overrun with people bringing in found creatures. They aren’t strong enough to get to water or don’t know how to feed themselves. People have been filling buckets and pools so they have places to drink or cool off. For once, you feel good about humanity.

I walked by an almost dry stream the other day. Normally it‘s down but never like this.

Farther up north in the province, they have flood alerts on the Fraser River because of the extremely fast snow melt.
 
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The problem of determining if there is climate change, is the variability of our weather. When you consider all the oil/gas powered engines, factories, power plants, homes, buildings, planes, etc., etc., etc., etc. through out the world, it has to be in the 100s of millions, possibly a billion. They are all spewing chemicals into the air. If you breath in those chemical, you die. It's inane to believe all those chemicals aren't having an effect on our planet. You just can't dump that much into the ski, like a sewer, and not have it have some kind of effect. But the predictions about how climate change would begin are close to what we are experiencing.
 

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