It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!

IdRatherBeSkiing

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We have "feels like" too. It's not AZ.
I grew up in SK and visit there yearly in summer to visit my dad. 31-36 does not feel as hot there as here. I wouldn't believe a "feels like" temperature of anything over 39 in SK.

On a side note, when did we become so stupid to not be able to understand Humidex is in the summer and Wind Chill is in the winter that we needed a universal term "feels like"?
 

petros

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I grew up in SK and visit there yearly in summer to visit my dad. 31-36 does not feel as hot there as here. I wouldn't believe a "feels like" temperature of anything over 39 in SK.

On a side note, when did we become so stupid to not be able to understand Humidex is in the summer and Wind Chill is in the winter that we needed a universal term "feels like"?
Feels like is bullshit. 30 is 30. Swamp ass is swamp ass.
 
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Private jets polluted more than all flights from Heathrow, study finds
Author of the article:Washington Post
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Anusha Mathur
Published Jun 27, 2025 • 4 minute read

Celebrities and business leaders like Taylor Swift and Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol may generate the occasional controversy with their frequent use of private jets, but capturing the full environmental impact of private aviation has remained a challenge.


Now, a new report from the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation sheds light on which nations are driving the largest share of this planet-warming pollution – and which airports stand out.


“It’s pretty well known that in a typical year, private jets are responsible for about 2 percent of aviation emissions,” said Dan Rutherford, the group’s senior director of research and a co-author of the new report. “What we’ve done for the first time is, we’ve basically used flight trajectory data to break that out into the individual contributions of airports and countries.”

The study spotlights the outsize impact of the United States on emissions. Globally, private jets emitted up to 19.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2023: Aircraft departing from the United States accounted for 65 percent of global private jet flights, and 55 percent of those gas emissions.


That year, private jets polluted more than the total of all commercial flights departing from London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest hub.

Researchers identified 22,749 private jets by unique tail number that operated over 3.57 million flights.

The analysis is the first effort to combine flight trajectory information with publicly available emissions models to allocate private jet activity to specific airports.

The study also modeled air pollution, meaning it considered not only greenhouse gases but also nitrogen oxide pollution and fine particulate matter – both associated with significant human health risks. Researchers found that 18 of the 20 most polluting airports for private jet use are in the United States. And the majority of these flights are short-haul trips, lasting under two hours.


“If you look at individual airports that are polluted from private jets, Van Nuys Airport [in Los Angeles] popped out,” Rutherford said. “This is getting a lot of visibility because it’s where the celebrities and influencers are all parking their planes.”

Short-haul flights, defined as covering distances less than around 930 miles, account for roughly a third of aviation’s annual carbon output. Airplanes burn a significant amount of fuel when taking off and climbing to altitude, making these trips less efficient than longer ones.

France imposed a ban on short-haul domestic flights in 2023, but because it was limited to trips within its borders, analysts described the policy’s impact as modest.

Private jets generate between five and 14 times more greenhouse emissions per passenger than commercial planes, according to the European clean transportation nonprofit group Transport & Environment, and 50 times more emissions than trains travelling that same distance.


While private jets often show up in large numbers in big events, from the World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos to the Super Bowl, the United States still ranks higher than other wealthy countries. The new data shows 687 private jet flights per 10,000 people in the United States, compared to just 117 in the United Kingdom and 107 in France. Florida and Texas alone generated 543,815 flights – more than the entire European Union.


“With smaller, private aircrafts, you don’t have as many passengers to distribute the emissions across, so you lose some economies of scale,” said Colin Murphy, associate director of the Energy Futures Research Program at the UC-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, who was not involved in the study.


“We have a lot of millionaires and billionaires,” Rutherford said. “We’re a highly unequal society, and so that generates a lot of traffic.”

This week dozens of private jets are expected to arrive in Venice for Jeff Bezos’s wedding. (Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.)

Policy efforts to cut down on emissions from private aviation have largely fallen short. Legislation introduced in 2023 would have raised the federal fuel tax on private planes nearly ninefold, from $0.22 to $1.95 per gallon, but the bill never came to a vote.

At the same time, a Federal Aviation Administration program implemented last year allows some owners to remove their flight data from public distribution, making it more difficult to track private aircraft.


“The very important insight is that the global growth in emissions is coming from the top, from more people entering the very affluent classes that can afford private aviation,” said Stefan Gössling, professor of Tourism Research at Linnaeus University and Human Ecology at Lund University, who was not involved in the study. “That is a trend that is quite powerful and ongoing and will mean that we will not be able to meet our climate goals simply because there’s so much growth in the system that we cannot compensate.”

Still, researchers say that the data offers a stark picture of an elite mode of travel with an outsize climate footprint – one that has increased its emissions by 25 percent over the past decade.

“Private jets are like the canary in the coal mine here for a hyper unequal warming world,” Rutherford said.
 

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$300 million federal climate programs failed to produce new jobs, lower emissions: Report
Author of the article:postmedia News
Published Jul 02, 2025 • Last updated 20 hours ago • 1 minute read

A report by the Department of Natural Resources says two 2018 federal climate programs that promised new jobs and lower emissions failed to provide either according to Blacklock’s Reporter.


In fact, managers “stopped collecting” data that would establish whether taxpayers received value for money for the programs that received multi-year funding to the tune of $301.38 million to subsidize power projects.


Managers “stopped collecting certain performance metrics, e.g. greenhouse gas emission reductions, throughout the project duration,” said the report.

“These metrics will only be collected in final reporting as those responsible for program delivery only expect meaningful data to be available once solutions have been fully implemented and tested. At that time, evidence suggests it will most likely be too difficult and too late to identify weaknesses or errors and make changes and corrections.”


Auditors wrote that the records made available were incomplete.

“Removing annual reporting increases the risk of poor quality performance information,” said the report.

“Documents provided by funding recipients had some gaps in actual outcomes and results. The evaluation team also observed some outcome information is not captured consistently across projects.”

Back then, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said the programs would “help build cleaner, safer, better connected electricity systems and create well-paying jobs for middle class Canadians.”

The report says neither claim was verified.

“There are areas of improvement and lessons learned,” it said.

“There are inconsistencies in how the programs collect performance information. The lack of a consistent approach in how data were reported rendered it impossible to aggregate the results and thus accurately assess the extent to which some of the indicators have been met.”

No job creation figures were projected when the programs were launched.
 
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$300 million federal climate programs failed to produce new jobs, lower emissions: Report
Author of the article:postmedia News
Published Jul 02, 2025 • Last updated 20 hours ago • 1 minute read

A report by the Department of Natural Resources says two 2018 federal climate programs that promised new jobs and lower emissions failed to provide either according to Blacklock’s Reporter.


In fact, managers “stopped collecting” data that would establish whether taxpayers received value for money for the programs that received multi-year funding to the tune of $301.38 million to subsidize power projects.


Managers “stopped collecting certain performance metrics, e.g. greenhouse gas emission reductions, throughout the project duration,” said the report.

“These metrics will only be collected in final reporting as those responsible for program delivery only expect meaningful data to be available once solutions have been fully implemented and tested. At that time, evidence suggests it will most likely be too difficult and too late to identify weaknesses or errors and make changes and corrections.”


Auditors wrote that the records made available were incomplete.

“Removing annual reporting increases the risk of poor quality performance information,” said the report.

“Documents provided by funding recipients had some gaps in actual outcomes and results. The evaluation team also observed some outcome information is not captured consistently across projects.”

Back then, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said the programs would “help build cleaner, safer, better connected electricity systems and create well-paying jobs for middle class Canadians.”

The report says neither claim was verified.

“There are areas of improvement and lessons learned,” it said.

“There are inconsistencies in how the programs collect performance information. The lack of a consistent approach in how data were reported rendered it impossible to aggregate the results and thus accurately assess the extent to which some of the indicators have been met.”

No job creation figures were projected when the programs were launched.
You didn’t think that money was to be invested in climate initiatives did you ?
 

Ron in Regina

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You didn’t think that money was to be invested in climate initiatives did you ?
Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz and Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy said in a letter to federal counterpart Julie Dabrusin that the new, Mark Carney-led Liberal government will need to ditch Justin Trudeau’s net-zero agenda if it hopes to meet its promise to make Canada an energy superpower.

“We are hopeful that (the Carney government) will move away from policies and legislation that undermine competitiveness, delay project development, and disproportionately harm certain (regions) without any quantifiable benefit to the natural environment,” read the letter.

“Canada is poised to become an economic superpower, but achieving that potential depends on strong, constitutionally grounded provincial authority over resource development and environmental management.”
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Schulz shared a copy of the letter on social media on Wednesday, just as a two-day meeting between federal, provincial and territorial environment ministers kicked off in Yellowknife.

The letter calls for a repeal of the federal Impact Assessment Act, as well as a full repeal of the legislation authorizing the consumer carbon tax. Carney set the tax to zero shortly after becoming prime minister in March without actually repealing that stinker.
 

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Why Canada may not be ready for ’new reality’ of flash flooding and severe storms
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Nono Shen
Published Jul 08, 2025 • 3 minute read

VANCOUVER — Ryan Ness of the Canadian Climate Institute says he’s been following the “terrible tragedy” of deadly flash flooding unfolding in Texas, where more than 100 people have died.


But he’s also worried Canada isn’t doing enough to prevent such disasters here, saying the country needs to invest in flood mapping, infrastructure and early warning systems.


“Luckily, there are many ways that we can protect ourselves, but we have to make the effort,” said Ness, who is the research director for adaptation at the policy research organization.

“You know, first of all, we have to understand where the risk is.”

He said many parts of Canada don’t have flood maps, “so it’s hard to know where to protect or where to send warnings.”

Flood warning systems are also needed to help people in the path of flash floods “prepare or get away, if they can,” while long-term infrastructure upgrades are needed to protect risk zones.


“In some cases, that means putting things in the houses like backflow valves that keep sewers from backing up,” he said.

“Or it can mean building flood walls along rivers to keep flooding from happening. Or it can mean making sure that city planning doesn’t allow more new housing in flood risk zones.”

The raging flash floods in Texas — among the worst in the United States in decades — slammed into camps and homes along the Guadalupe River before daybreak Friday. Some survivors were found clinging to trees.

The disaster has put a focus on both the risk of flash flooding as well as how to predict or prevent it.

Ness warned that climate change is making flash flooding worse and many Canadian cities, provinces and territories don’t have laws in place to prevent development in dangerous areas.


He called increased risk of flash flooding and more severe storms “the new reality.”

Flash floods have stuck across Canada over the past year, including Coquitlam, B.C., where an atmospheric river rain event triggered a mudslide that killed a teacher in October, and Toronto, where torrential rain overwhelmed drainage last July and caused about $990 million in insured losses.

Ness said that in hilly areas of B.C.’s Interior with fast water runoff, flash floods can sweep away people’s homes with “very little warning.”

He said flash flooding can be made worse in areas burned by wildfire, where soil that is no longer held together by plant life “is much more likely to maybe turn into a mudslide or a landslide.”

He said other risk areas are in Alberta in the front ranges of the Rockies featuring lots of rock and little absorbent soil.


“When it does rain, it can flow downhill very quickly. The town of Canmore (in Alberta), for example, has identified this as a major risk and has a strategy to try to deal with it,” said Ness. Massive floods hit the town in 2013.

In Montreal and Toronto, flash floods are usually due to paved areas with no soil to soak up heavy rain, Ness said.

“And the water rises very quickly in rivers and streams that run through those areas, and it also rises very quickly in sewers, and that’s what backs up into people’s basements most often, and causes basement flooding,” said Ness.

He said Toronto has a multibillion-dollar strategy to improve storm sewers. But it takes a long time to find that much funding, and the type of disruptive construction required isn’t an easy fix.

“That’s another reason to start making these investments as soon as possible, because it is going to take some time. But climate change isn’t going to wait,” said Ness.

He said Canada needs to adapt for flash flooding much more quickly.

“There are many smart engineers and government officials who know what to do, but we need to support and invest in the projects to adapt to this new reality. Otherwise, we are not going to be ready.”

— with files from The Associated Press
 

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For some reasons rivers overflow regularly.

Now for unmitigated stupidity...

"Flash floods have stuck across Canada over the past year, including Coquitlam, B.C., where an atmospheric river rain event triggered a mudslide that killed a teacher in October."

They clearcut and paved a rainforest mountainside in a city that gets 6 ft of rain annually but its climate change's fault.

PS, we did a virtual tour of a property on the Guadalupe near Seguin TX. $715K for a 1 acre lot. Probably get it for $600K now.
 
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For some reasons rivers overflow regularly.

Now for unmitigated stupidity...

"Flash floods have stuck across Canada over the past year, including Coquitlam, B.C., where an atmospheric river rain event triggered a mudslide that killed a teacher in October."

They clearcut and paved a rainforest mountainside in a city that gets 6 ft of rain annually but its climate change's fault.
Climate is always changing.
 

petros

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Rainier this time.

Jesus, can’t Trump just threaten Mount Rainier with tariffs or something? Guilbeault threaten it with carbon taxes or whatever? Anyway, in a Tuesday letter to Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, representatives Tom Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach, Glenn Grothman and Pete Stauber of Wisconsin and Minnesota said their constituents are coping with suffocating smoke from Canadian wildfires.

"As we are entering the height of the fire season, we would like to know how your government plans on mitigating wildfires and the smoke that makes its way south," the letter said.

The lawmakers said successive years of wildfires in Canada have undermined air quality in their states and robbed Americans of their ability to enjoy the summer.

(They pointed to forest management and arson as possible factors behind the fires. They did not mention climate change)

The lawmakers urged Hillman to relay their concerns to Ottawa, in particular to Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Forest Service.

The Canadian Embassy in Washington confirmed it had received the letter and said it will be shared with the relevant agencies. Spokesperson Tarryn Elliott said in an email that "Canada takes the prevention, response and mitigation of wildfires very seriously, etc…”
 

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"As we are entering the height of the fire season, we would like to know how your government plans on mitigating wildfires and the smoke that makes its way south," the letter said.
We would like to know if our governments have any plans to mitigate wildfires as well. Most especially, the ones set by climate change truthers.