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Itâs been a ridiculously hot Winter and Spring for most of Western and Northern Canada. And in many locations, odd, Summer-like conditions are already starting to dominate. For these regions â areas sitting on piles of dry vegetation or thawing permafrost â a single hot day, thunderstorm, or even just the melting away of the Winter snow is now enough to spur the eruption of wildfires.
In Fort St. John, along the shores of Charlie Lake in Northeastern British Columbia and at about the same Latitude line as Ft. McMurray in Alberta, temperatures on Monday rocketed to 28 degrees Celsius (about 82 degrees Fahrenheit). These scorching readings were about 20 degrees C (36 degrees F) above average for the day. The excessive early-season heat sweltered an area that had seen extensive drying throughout a long, warm winter. And nearby grasses and crops became a ready fuel as MondayâsâŚ
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Such a shame itâs all happening in #NYC â câmon #London, catch up!
In December, #RaviDeRossi, the owner of 15 restaurants and bars in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, made a radical business decision: he resolved to convert as many of his restaurants as possible to vegan menus. Like many entrepreneurs, heâs struggling with how to stay true to his personal values while running a viable business.
Forbesâ headline is misleading. Ravi didnât âgo veganâ. The former successful abstract painter says he has been vegan most of his life. I love this man â it was while taking time at home to care for his dying cat that he did some serious soul-searching and decided that âI wanted to start turning my restaurants #vegan.â He said he could no longer justify the toll his practices were taking on the environmentâŚ
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Source: Underwater Noise – The Overlooked Catastrophe (for Marine-Life)
Writing about human-forced climate change isnât easy. And, lately, year after year, Iâve grown to dread these three words more and more â Summer is Coming.
This year, itâs worse. The gateway of Equatorial-to-Polar heat transfer was thrown wide open as one of the strongest El Ninos on record blazed through the Pacific. As a result, Winter temperatures in the Arctic hit levels that were likely never seen by any human that has ever lived in a settlement resembling a town or a city. And one of the paths over which this heat ran was Western North America. A region that is now experiencing a number of early warning signs that trouble is on the way.
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What was perhaps the strongest El Nino on record is now fading in the Equatorial Pacific. It was an event that many hoped would provide significant relief to a drought-stricken California. An eventâŚ
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âI can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know you are coming.â
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The atmospheric ingredients right now are ripe for some serious trouble. Globally, the world is just starting to back away from the hottest temperatures ever recorded. This never-before-seen heat plume, driven on by a fossil-fuel abetted warming not seen in at least 115,000 years and an extreme El Nino combined, has loaded an unprecedented amount of moisture into the Earthâs atmosphere. As El Nino shifts toward La Nina and the Earth marginally cools, a portion of this massive excess of water vapor is bound to fall out as rain â manifesting as terrible extreme precipitation episodes that can result in serious trouble. A seemingly endless procession of freak events that challenge the record books time andâŚ
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By Jared Lloyd
A lot of noise has been made about the 19 elk killed last month by a pack of wolves in Bondurant. What has been lost throughout much of the coverage are the facts about what actually led to this extremely rare occurrence. Behind the headlines is a manmade story. To be able to understand what went down that night in Wyoming, these facts need to be understood.
To begin with, the elk in question were killed on a feedlot. Just like cattle, in Wyoming elk have feedlots as well. Picture anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand âwildâ elk standing around waiting to be fed. Wyoming has elk feedlots all over the place. Come winter, these feeding grounds shovel out bales of hay for the elk like they are livestock. Elk are heavily concentrated in these feedlots, fed all winter long, and have learned to just stand around waiting for their daily handouts.
So why does Wyoming feed elk in the first place? Is it because predators in the ecosystem are killing so many? No. Wyoming actually considers elk to be overpopulated. This practice was started in part to keep elk from competing with cattle back when predators across the Rocky Mountains were at their lowest numbers. In the absence of predators, elk populations exploded. Come winter, these animals would flood onto ranches in search of food, gorging themselves on stocks of hay.
So what has all this done to the elk? Quite simply, elk no longer act like elk. Given that these animals have grown up in a relatively predator-free environment for nearly 100 years, elk are now being forced to come to terms with the reality of predators again. And in order to survive, lesson number one is not to stand around in groups of a several thousand, in one place, for months on end waiting for handouts from humans.
So what did the wolves do? They committed what is known as surplus killing. Occasionally, when prey is so plentiful, predators will kill multiple animals in one go. Scientists state that when faced with a bonanza such as the feedlot provided, wolves may kill with the intention to return as often as that food is available.
It didnât take long for Arctic sea ice to start to respond to a fossil-fuel based accumulation of hothouse gasses in the Earthâs atmosphere. For since the 1920s, that region of ocean ice along the northern polar zone has been in a steady, and increasingly rapid, retreat. Rachel Carson wrote about the start of the Northern Hemisphere ocean ice decline in her ground-breaking 1955 book â The Edge of the Sea.
But it wasnât until the late 1970s that consistent satellite observations began to provide an unbroken record telling the tale of Arctic sea ice decline. The National Snow and Ice Data Center, The Polar Science Center (PIOMAS), Japanâs JAXA, The Danish Meteorological Institute, and others have since that time provided a loyal recording of the stark impact human-forced warming has had on this sensitive and critical region.
(Severe sea ice volume losses since 1979âŚ
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In case she hasn’t noticed, Alaska is seeing its share of climate changes
Scorching temperatures. Melting ice caps. Killer hurricanes and tornadoes. Disappearing polar bears. The end of civilization as we know it! Are emissions from our cars, factories, and farms causing catastrophic climate change? Is there a genuine scientific consensus? Or is man-made âglobal warmingâ an overheated environmental con job being used to push for increased government regulations and a new âGreenâ energy agenda?
CLIMATE HUSTLE will answer these questions, and many, many more. Produced in the one-of-a-kind entertaining and informative style that has made CFACT and Marc Moranoâs award-winning ClimateDepot.com one of the worldâs most sought after sources for reliable, hard-to-find facts about climate issues, this groundbreaking film will tear the cover off of global warming hype, and expose the myths and exaggerations of this multi-billion dollar issue.
CLIMATE HUSTLE will reveal the history of climate scares including global cooling; debunk outrageous claims about temperatures, extreme weather, and the so-called âconsensus;â expose the increasingly shrill calls to âact immediately before it’s too late,” and in perhaps the filmâs most important section, profile key scientists who used to believe in climate alarm but have since converted to skepticism.
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By Melanie Ehrenkranz April 15, 2016Palin, climate change truther and the former governor of Alaska, made the claim Thursday in Capitol Hill while promoting her film Climate Hustle.
“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said. “He’s a kids’ show actor, he’s not a scientist.”
Nye, the science educator, television host and CEO of the Planetary Society and fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, where he also taught as a visiting professor. Nye worked at Boeing for years before becoming an entertainer. He is still an active scientist: Nye even developed sundials used in NASA’s Mars rover missions.
Palin claims that by saying global warming is manmade, “fearmonger” scientists are holding us back, according to the Hill. Palin also coaxed parents to pass down climate change skepticism to their children and to “ask those questions and not just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.”Palin targeted Nye likely due to his appearance in the film she was promoting, a film conservative news site Breitbart called “dynamite,” and Cal Thomas, who compares belief in climate change to belief in the tooth fairy, reportedly called “tremendous.”
Nye published his own video Tuesday on YouTube to discuss Climate Hustle, pleading with Morano to reverse his stance on climate change.
“If you embraced mainstream science just think of the good you could do,” Nye said. “I’m not kidding, man, I’m not joking with you. Just think what you could do for the world if you came around. You could be a force for good.”
Morano also asks Nye if it was embarrassing for him to watch clips from a documentary painting Nye’s side of the climate change movement as incorrect. To which Nye succinctly responds: “No.”
Exposing the Big Game 