Thats a little too hot.It was like that here this morning, except there was a decimal in the middle of the number.Maybe 3.6°C
Our overnight low was...
03:00 Partly Cloudy 2° (2.2°)
It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!
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Our overnight low was...
03:00 Partly Cloudy 2° (2.2°)
EV companies doing well:
www.motorauthority.com
Fisker goes bankrupt, plans to sell off assets
Henrik Fisker has filed for bankruptcy for the second time on an EV company he's led.
Giving convicted felon Trump a run for his money.EV companies doing well:
Fisker goes bankrupt, plans to sell off assets
Henrik Fisker has filed for bankruptcy for the second time on an EV company he's led.
If on the way out, they blew out 7 EV’s to the Canadian Arctic region (Yukon, NTW, & that other chunk of ground that starts with the letter N that I can’t spell) of 3.9 million KM’s….they’d have a 50% market share up there. They have 34 up there or so charging stations so they’re going gangbusters with big plans.EV companies doing well:
Fisker goes bankrupt, plans to sell off assets
Henrik Fisker has filed for bankruptcy for the second time on an EV company he's led.
Arctic first region to have 100% electric car charging capacity
Drivers of electric vehicles in the Canadian Arctic now have 34 public charging stations for seven vehicles, according to the Natural Resources Department.
More bad news for Fisker owners:
www.businessinsider.com
EV charging company says Fisker 'abandoned its contract' — so it's yanking promo credits from Fisker customers
Fisker filed for bankruptcy on Monday and Ocean owners are already beginning to feel the pinch.
www.businessinsider.com
I would have pictured you more a DeLorean guy.
I'm from Oklahoma, dude. Studebaker pickup all the way!
Gun rack, of course. . .
Will Toronto legislate a maximum temperature in apartments?
'We need a bylaw because climate change is not only an ecological crisis, but it's also an equity crisis'
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Jordan Omstead
Published Jun 18, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 6 minute read
Anushen Selvasegar can barely fit his hand through the narrow opening in his bedroom window to feel the breeze outside of his 14th-floor apartment in St. James Town, one of Toronto’s most densely populated neighbourhoods.
The portable air conditioner in the living room offers some relief, but the cool air does not reach the bedrooms and other corners of the apartment he shares with his parents and teenage sister, and definitely not in a scorching heat wave. Under a policy applied in Toronto’s social housing highrises, the windows only open 10 centimetres wide.
Selvasegar, 20, says his family keeps the ice box full and the stove off as much as possible during heat waves. But their options to stay cool are limited.
“We are low income and it’s not exactly easy to just buy whatever we want to cool ourselves off,” he said.
A punishing heat wave descended over large parts of Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada this week, with temperatures set to top 30 C for consecutive days in some places and feel as hot as 40 to 45 C with the humidity.
Selvasegar is part of a coalition of tenant and environmental advocacy organizations, backed by seniors’ and disability rights groups, who are demanding Toronto bring in a maximum temperature bylaw.
Similar to the way landlords must keep units heated when it’s cold, the coalition wants the city to legislate protections to keep residences no warmer than 26 degrees when outdoor temperatures increase.
A bylaw setting a maximum temperature for all residential units, not just those already equipped with an air conditioner, would be a first of its kind in Canada, advocates say. It could, in effect, require all building owners to provide and maintain cooling.
“This could potentially save the life of someone who is elderly, of someone who is disabled,” said Selvasegar.
Council directed City of Toronto staff last June to study maximum temperature requirements — along with other measures to mitigate extreme heat impacts in apartment buildings — with a report on their findings expected by the end of the year.
Toronto Coun. Shelley Carroll, who introduced the motion at city council last June, said the city was at a “tipping point,” and it’s “not feasible to ignore this problem.”
“At the very least, we’re going to have a much deeper consideration when staff wrap up that work than we’ve had in the past because I see that — that fundamental principle for me — the thing that is no longer feasible is the do-nothing approach,” she said.
A spokesperson for Mayor Olivia Chow called the situation in Toronto “dire and incredibly challenging.”
“The structure, design, and age (of) our rental stock means many buildings don’t have central air conditioning. Toronto is one of a number of big cities trying to address this problem,” Arianne Robinson wrote in a statement.
In Hamilton, city councillors could soon vote on a proposed maximum heat bylaw after staff were directed last summer to develop one as quickly as possible.
Some local governments in the United States already have a maximum heat and air conditioning requirement, including Dallas and Montgomery County, the state of Maryland’s most populous district.
Toronto city staff as recently as 2018 chose not to recommend a maximum apartment temperature requirement, citing concerns about how it could set off rent hikes, lead to extensive and costly retrofits and put pressure on the city’s constrained electrical grid.
Landlord lobby groups have also been critical of those proposals. Some say such a bylaw could see their members seek rent increases above provincial guidelines to offset their costs, which may create more backlog at the already logjammed Landlord and Tenant Board, the tribunal that oversees above-guideline rent increases.
But advocates say they believe the urgent impacts of climate change, paired with more affordable and efficient air conditioning, have raised the likelihood of getting a bylaw passed.
‘We need a bylaw because climate change is not only an ecological crisis, but it’s also an equity crisis. And in particular, in relation to extreme heat, it’s a public-health crisis,” said Jacqueline Wilson, a Toronto-based lawyer at the Canadian Environmental Law Association, one of the groups spearheading the coalition.
To underline the urgency of their calls, the coalition points to the deadly 2021 British Columbia heat wave that lasted from late June to early July. Most of the 619 people who died lived in places with no or inadequate air conditioning, and nearly all of them died indoors, a panel convened by the BC Coroner’s Service found.
The majority of people who died were also elderly, had a disability or chronic health condition, lived in lower-income neighbourhoods, or lived alone. Many people, including those with mobility or cognitive issues, cannot be expected to leave their homes in extreme heat events to access cool areas elsewhere — they will need services to come to them, the panel concluded.
The panel also noted people were most in danger when indoor temperatures remained above 26 C, the threshold adopted by advocates in their calls for a maximum heat bylaw.
The bylaw would help alleviate the strain on the health-care system and “more fairly protect people who currently don’t have access to any of these protections at home,” said Dr. Edward Xie, an emergency room doctor in Toronto.
“The higher the temperature goes, the higher the risk goes,” he said.
Climate change, driven by the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels, has already increased the likelihood of extreme heat in Canada’s most populous city, where hundreds of thousands of people live in places without air conditioning.
The number of days above 30 C has jumped from an average of eight days in the 1950s to about 18 days per year now, a recent city report said. If global emissions stay on their current track, that could increase to 29 days by around the 2030s, and 54 days by the 2060s, the report said.
Some landlord groups, however, are wary of a bylaw that could see their members spend money to supply and maintain air conditioners.
“The devil would be in the details,” said Boubah Bah, the chair of the lobby group Small Ownership Landlords Ontario.
“If it’s mandated, then there will be costs involved. And that cost, somebody will have to pay for it. And I’m telling you, it won’t be the landlord. The landlord will always pass the cost to the tenant.”
Jacqueline Wilson, the lawyer with the Canadian Environmental Law Association, acknowledged the issue of above-guideline increases is “serious.” She suggested stronger rent control and policies to protect tenants from so-called “renovictions” and “demovictions” _ when landlords evict tenants on the pretence of unit upgrades _ could help mitigate the problem.
The federal and provincial governments would also need to come through with strong funding support for “deep” retrofits to mitigate costs getting passed to tenants, she said. Monthly benefit programs that already help low-income tenants cover utilities costs, such as the Ontario Electricity Support Program, could be upped in the summer months to cover the costs of running an air conditioner.
The coalition suggests giving landlords a year to comply with any eventual bylaw. It’s the same timeline the province gave Ontario long-term care homes when it legislated a requirement for them to install air conditioning in all resident rooms by June 2022.
“The bottom line is that renters cannot be left to face serious health risks, and even death, in their homes because of exposure to extreme heat,” Wilson said.
“The starting point of any analysis has to be public health interventions that will save lives.”
Will Toronto legislate a maximum temperature in apartments?
The coalition wants the city to legislate protections to keep residences no warmer than 26C when outdoor temperatures increase.
Widespread warnings as high heat envelops much of Ontario
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Jun 18, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
Most of Ontario started to swelter on Monday as what’s expected to be a prolonged heat wave arrived in the province, with Environment Canada warning that many communities could experience dangerously high temperatures this week.
The weather agency issued heat warnings for large swathes of the province, from southwestern Ontario all the way to the Quebec border, stretching up to Sault Ste. Marie and as far north as Moosonee. It warned that vulnerable people would be particularly at risk as temperatures soar.
Temperatures in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa could feel as hot as 45 C with the humidity this week. Regions further north are also forecast to see humidex values that could feel like the low to mid 40s.
“It’s certainly out of the norm,” Environment Canada meteorologist Gerald Cheng said in a phone interview Monday.
“Normally we should be at 25 C for daytime highs and 14 C for nighttime lows.”
A weather system south of the border is driving the heat, Cheng said, with hot air expected to later move eastward, blanketing much of southern Quebec and most of New Brunswick later this week.
“The air mass from the south is importing hot and humid weather into Ontario and that’s why we’re looking at temperatures into the 30s and humidex values into the 40s,” Cheng said.
Factors at play during the heat wave include normal weather fluctuations that can sometimes lead to temperature spikes as early as May, Cheng said, and the ongoing effects of global warming.
“Climate change is working in the background to make these heat events more likely and more intense in the long run,” he said.
This week’s heat wave was made twice as likely by climate change, Climate Central, a U.S.-based non-profit group of scientists and communicators, wrote in a statement. The U.S. National Weather Service has also issued warnings about record-breaking heat expected from the Midwest to the Northeast over the next several days.
The health risks associated with heat are greater for older adults, infants and young children and other vulnerable groups, Environment Canada said.
It’s important to stay hydrated, avoid physical activities during the height of day, and follow the advice of public health experts, Cheng said. He also urged people to check in on their neighbours, especially if they are elderly or otherwise vulnerable.
In downtown Toronto, Bob Brooks was sitting under a tree to take a break from the sun.
“I just limit the amount of exposure to the sun and sit in the shade and use a fan and I’m fine,” he said, adding that he had adapted to hot weather after years of living in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Toronto District School Board said in a note to parents that it’s expecting “uncomfortable conditions” this week in schools that are only partially air conditioned or have no A/C at all. It said staff will be using fans, turning lights off, closing curtains and keeping windows open when possible.
The school board said parents should encourage children to wear light clothing and drink lots of water, while noting that heat-wave-related school closures are not typical.
The City of Toronto said people experiencing homelessness can seek reprieve from the heat at various drop-in centres, shelters and 24-hour respite sites across the city.
Street outreach programs are also dispatching teams to conduct wellness checks, provide water and encourage unhoused people to go to a cool space, city spokesperson Elise von Scheel wrote in an email.
The city’s Heat Relief Network lists hundreds of locations across Toronto that provide air conditioning and other forms of respite from the heat.
But one advocate said most of those spaces are “unwelcoming” to unhoused people and the existing street outreach services “aren’t reaching most people.”
“There are an increasing number of people living outdoors, and they are now dispersed across the city,” community worker and harm-reduction advocate Diana Chan McNally wrote in an email. “Many people don’t have access to running water, either because drinking fountains and park washrooms aren’t functioning, which is a running issue in Toronto, or they simply don’t exist where people are living.”
She said the city should bring back 24/7 emergency cooling centres, which used to welcome unhoused people as well as seniors and tenants of apartment buildings without air conditioning.
A spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care said all nursing homes in the province, except for two that are being redeveloped, are “fully air-conditioned.”
Meanwhile, the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator said Monday there will be enough electricity supply to meet the additional demand created by the heat wave.
Parts of southern and central Quebec are also bracing for extreme temperatures of between 30 and 35 C, with a humidex of over 40 C, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Jean-Philippe Begin.
“What differentiates this heat wave versus others that we had in the past is the intensity,” and especially the humidity, he said, adding that it’s “going to feel tropical.”
A spokesman for the City of Montreal said each borough was creating a list of places for people to cool down, including some pools that are opening earlier than planned.
For those who don’t welcome the heat or struggle with it, Cheng said preparation and risk awareness will be key for the next few months.
“I think we have to remember that there is still a whole summer ahead of us,” he said.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Jun 18, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
Most of Ontario started to swelter on Monday as what’s expected to be a prolonged heat wave arrived in the province, with Environment Canada warning that many communities could experience dangerously high temperatures this week.
The weather agency issued heat warnings for large swathes of the province, from southwestern Ontario all the way to the Quebec border, stretching up to Sault Ste. Marie and as far north as Moosonee. It warned that vulnerable people would be particularly at risk as temperatures soar.
Temperatures in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa could feel as hot as 45 C with the humidity this week. Regions further north are also forecast to see humidex values that could feel like the low to mid 40s.
“It’s certainly out of the norm,” Environment Canada meteorologist Gerald Cheng said in a phone interview Monday.
“Normally we should be at 25 C for daytime highs and 14 C for nighttime lows.”
A weather system south of the border is driving the heat, Cheng said, with hot air expected to later move eastward, blanketing much of southern Quebec and most of New Brunswick later this week.
“The air mass from the south is importing hot and humid weather into Ontario and that’s why we’re looking at temperatures into the 30s and humidex values into the 40s,” Cheng said.
Factors at play during the heat wave include normal weather fluctuations that can sometimes lead to temperature spikes as early as May, Cheng said, and the ongoing effects of global warming.
“Climate change is working in the background to make these heat events more likely and more intense in the long run,” he said.
This week’s heat wave was made twice as likely by climate change, Climate Central, a U.S.-based non-profit group of scientists and communicators, wrote in a statement. The U.S. National Weather Service has also issued warnings about record-breaking heat expected from the Midwest to the Northeast over the next several days.
The health risks associated with heat are greater for older adults, infants and young children and other vulnerable groups, Environment Canada said.
It’s important to stay hydrated, avoid physical activities during the height of day, and follow the advice of public health experts, Cheng said. He also urged people to check in on their neighbours, especially if they are elderly or otherwise vulnerable.
In downtown Toronto, Bob Brooks was sitting under a tree to take a break from the sun.
“I just limit the amount of exposure to the sun and sit in the shade and use a fan and I’m fine,” he said, adding that he had adapted to hot weather after years of living in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Toronto District School Board said in a note to parents that it’s expecting “uncomfortable conditions” this week in schools that are only partially air conditioned or have no A/C at all. It said staff will be using fans, turning lights off, closing curtains and keeping windows open when possible.
The school board said parents should encourage children to wear light clothing and drink lots of water, while noting that heat-wave-related school closures are not typical.
The City of Toronto said people experiencing homelessness can seek reprieve from the heat at various drop-in centres, shelters and 24-hour respite sites across the city.
Street outreach programs are also dispatching teams to conduct wellness checks, provide water and encourage unhoused people to go to a cool space, city spokesperson Elise von Scheel wrote in an email.
The city’s Heat Relief Network lists hundreds of locations across Toronto that provide air conditioning and other forms of respite from the heat.
But one advocate said most of those spaces are “unwelcoming” to unhoused people and the existing street outreach services “aren’t reaching most people.”
“There are an increasing number of people living outdoors, and they are now dispersed across the city,” community worker and harm-reduction advocate Diana Chan McNally wrote in an email. “Many people don’t have access to running water, either because drinking fountains and park washrooms aren’t functioning, which is a running issue in Toronto, or they simply don’t exist where people are living.”
She said the city should bring back 24/7 emergency cooling centres, which used to welcome unhoused people as well as seniors and tenants of apartment buildings without air conditioning.
A spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care said all nursing homes in the province, except for two that are being redeveloped, are “fully air-conditioned.”
Meanwhile, the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator said Monday there will be enough electricity supply to meet the additional demand created by the heat wave.
Parts of southern and central Quebec are also bracing for extreme temperatures of between 30 and 35 C, with a humidex of over 40 C, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Jean-Philippe Begin.
“What differentiates this heat wave versus others that we had in the past is the intensity,” and especially the humidity, he said, adding that it’s “going to feel tropical.”
A spokesman for the City of Montreal said each borough was creating a list of places for people to cool down, including some pools that are opening earlier than planned.
For those who don’t welcome the heat or struggle with it, Cheng said preparation and risk awareness will be key for the next few months.
“I think we have to remember that there is still a whole summer ahead of us,” he said.
Widespread warnings as high heat envelops much of Ontario
Environment Canada warns the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa could feel as hot as 45 C along with the humid conditions.
A Canadian non-profit scientist says they're full of shit.
Such a drama queen . The convicted felon , for how long ? How many of those felonies stand on appeal ? It must really suck having such a dynamic candidate demanding your support . Lol
Gonna hit room temp here today. I’ll take it!! First day of Summer too, & day before the Summer Solstice.
The jury is still out on global warming, as far as I'm concerned.
However, the "logic" of "It's chilly at my house today, therefore global warming is a hoax!" is just retarded.
However, the "logic" of "It's chilly at my house today, therefore global warming is a hoax!" is just retarded.
Is root rot caused by it being too hot?
Clover has exploded across my newly seeded (& fertilized, & 1000lbs+ of topsoil added a month ago) lawn, & I couldn’t spray for it without killing the new lawn seedlings.
I’m assuming England is covered with this shit…cool & wetter climate, etc…
I’m assuming England is covered with this shit…cool & wetter climate, etc…
Clover thickens a lawn up nicely. Why spray? Clover will choke out most weeds but not grass.
So is telling us there is a drought when it is pissing down rain.