Category: Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Ski Resorts Edition

Nothing would upset the jet-setting climate celebrity crowd more this time of year than to discover that the snow cover...

08 Jan 2020| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Disaster Fatality Edition

As far as we know, no cities or countries declared a "Climate Emergency" in the 1920s. Instead, strangely, they waited...

18 Dec 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Black Thursday Edition

No, not a belated Black Friday reference. Black Thursday in 1851, the day half the state of Victoria, Australia, was...

11 Dec 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Interglacial Edition

We found the climate emergency. We weren’t having any luck rummaging through the current interglacial era, namely the 10,000 years...

04 Dec 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Hurricane Edition

Nobody seems to think a bit of warming is a big problem, especially after the November we've been having. So,...

27 Nov 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: World Food Production Edition

After touring Canadian cities and failing to find the much-hyped climate emergency we thought we'd look and see if it...

20 Nov 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Toronto Edition

The City of Toronto has embraced the climate emergency movement with great gusto, even floating the idea of new property...

13 Nov 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Markham Edition

A correspondent alerted us to an upcoming effort to get Markham to declare a climate emergency. It apparently not being...

06 Nov 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Cambridge Bay Edition

OK, so maybe most Canadian cities on the Tour aren’t showing any signs of warming. But, we often hear, Canada's...

30 Oct 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergecy Tour: St. John's Edition

Out to the east coast we go, all the way to our easternmost weather station in St. John's Newfoundland, where...

23 Oct 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Churchill Edition

Our climate emergency tour swings north to the shores of Hudson Bay this week. You might be surprised to learn...

16 Oct 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Victoria edition

While on the subject of the relative harm done by cold versus warmth, we can't help but notice that when...

09 Oct 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Hamilton Edition

If any place in Canada should be having a climate emergency, surely it is Hamilton, home of the fossil fuel-guzzling...

02 Oct 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Winnipeg Edition

Alas, poor Winterpeg. Sitting there year after year waiting for a bit of lovely climate emergency to make the winters...

25 Sep 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Sudbury edition

Last week we saw that Edmonton nighttime lows have warmed a bit since the 1800s but the daytime highs haven't....

18 Sep 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Edmonton Edition

If you listen to its city councillors, Edmonton is facing a Climate Emergency. We prefer looking at the climate data,...

11 Sep 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Regina Edition

Our continuing survey of the climate history of Canadian cities, made possible by the website weatherstats.ca, continues with a visit...

04 Sep 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate emergency tour: Montreal edition

Our tour of Canadian cities suffering the horrors of the climate emergency takes us today to Montreal PQ, where records...

28 Aug 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Climate Emergency Tour: Calgary Edition

In our continuing series on Canadian cities enduring the horrors of the climate change emergency, today's stop is Calgary. Here...

21 Aug 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Vancouver: Where's the climate emergency?

The latest stop in our continuing tour of Canadian cities declaring a so-called Climate Emergency is Vancouver BC, where the...

31 Jul 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Halifax: Where are the heatwaves?

In our continuing travels through Canadian weather records based on the weatherstats.ca website, today's destination is Halifax NS. Last weekend...

24 Jul 2019| Climate Emergency Tour

Heatwaves then and now

Via a CDN correspondent we recently learned of the remarkable website weatherstats.ca. It lets you see today's temperature across the...

03 Jul 2019| Climate Emergency Tour