Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat
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It should be "Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat the way the used to"
From the article: "nearly 50 per cent said they’d bought fewer meat products in the previous six months"
Noticed it getting warmer lately? Droughts? Fires? Deaths from heat waves? Relevant: "Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study
So Canada, which organically, has a declining population, should encourage it's citizens to eat less meat so some guy in the third world can have their 11th child? Get fucked.
Not seeing that connection. I was thinking more like so the woods don't burn up and crops don't fail, Greenland and Antarctica's ice doesn't all melt, and so on. Noticed any changes in the weather lately?
If you have the time have a look at Table 1 "Top Six Areas of Climate Change Risk Facing Canada" in this report: https://cca-reports.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Report-Canada-top-climate-change-risks.pdf
Hahahaha. This is a serious report? All the northern Native communities gonna be running each other down with their canoes?
Don't know much about the North, eh?
Let’s do what if.
Internet search engines are your friends.
Or perhaps you have something you want to say?
So if greenlands and Antarctic ice does melt…So what? Greenland is called Greenland becuase it used to be green. Greenland used to vary between 50F to about 1F.
The woods “burn up”? How do the woods “burn up” by simply having the average temperature increase by say. 3c? No. The cause of most forest and wild fires is lightning, not ambient temperature. Lightning will start a forest fire no matter if it’s 5c or 50c.
Higher co2 means better and thicker leaf growth and faster tree repopulation. Fire is a vital part of mother nature’s forest cleaning and renewal ecosystem and fires raged in the forest long before mankind came on the scene and interfered. Canada’s jack pine needs the heat of fire nearby to germinate. Can we reduce forest fires by clearing away undergrowth and having fire breaks? Yes. If we don’t, like California, Mother Nature will do it for us. The recent media hysteria of forest fires in BC were surreal. The fires should have been left alone to burn out, whilst protecting populated areas.
Rising sea levels. The consequences do not lend themselves to short OmegaCanada posts. National Geographic summarizes things fairly well: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/sea-level-rise-1
Lightning starts them. Climate change produces more lightning. How well they burn is firmly linked to climate change.
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/np/2021/09/01/forest-fires/
This is the logical equivalent of saying "Raising the speed limit in cities to 100 miles per hour will allow people to get where they're going faster." True, but not a good idea given everything else it means.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/
How does the article or perhaps yourself consider a “greenhouse” gas? Methane? Co2?
"Greenhouse effect is produced by greenhouse gasses (GHG) like water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxides (NxO) and ozone (O3)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837998/
Ok well since water vapour is the main greenhouse gas/effect.
Ok fine. The greenhouse effect is an important part of keeping the earth habitable. Greenhouse gas in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just a natural phenomenon.
Wether there’s “too much” or “too little” of it is the issue, too much, and you get a warmer earth. Too little and earth is colder. Ok so: what’s so bad about a warmer earth? Geological history shows us past very warm periods happened with abundant life nothing terrible was a result. What’s so bad about a colder earth? Well we all know how that turned out. Ice ages.
Mostly the people who have died and will die from the storms, fires, heat waves, floods, droughts, starvation from crop failures...
Don't take my word for it. Do your own research.
No I’m not saying that water vapour is bad, it’s the main ‘greenhouse gas’. But also that the greenhouse effect isn’t a bad thing. We need water vapour and an even higher co2 level. As you say, co2 is an amazing gas of life! More co2 please!
If you honestly believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is not contributing to climate change then we might be too far apart to have a conversation. But I'm curious: is any attempt made to prevent the CO2 you're talking about being released into the atmosphere?
Your link describes experiments that produced a tenth of a milimetre of snow., or 0.004 (four one thousandths) of an inch. If you think that's the source of the floods, fires, and storms of the last few years, well, you might be the only one.
Nope. https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change
How do you know about them?
Your first question by the way. Noticed it’s getting warmer lately?
Hmm. Not where I choose to live. It’s been as cold or colder. 2015 IIRC was record levels of wind chill in Edmonton and Calgary. A good -35 every winter in Calgary and Edmonton for years. We could do with some of that global warming they keep talking about (incessantly since 1910 or so)
On the one hand we have you looking out your window. On the other we have people with thermometers writing data down over a period of decades:
"Since 1950, almost every part of the province has experienced significant increases in winter temperature (from +0.5 to +1oC per decade) and decreases in the frequency of cold days, heating degree-days, and the proportion of winter precipitation falling as snow. Over half of the province has also experienced significant increases in summer temperature (from +0.1 to +0.3oC per decade), and some parts have also seen significant increases in warm days over 25 and 30oC."
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/89a69583-a11b-4e31-a857-b311ab6563cc/resource/17ce2d24-ba7b-466c-acd9-33a2cf6beb69/download/aep-alberta-climate-report-arc.pdf
If it is increasing, then I am glad it is. Warmer civilisations are thriving civilisations.
What’s so bad about a warmer earth? Would be nice to have Canada 2c on average warmer.
Make sure your grandchildren know you feel this way.