Some unexpected climate news

The discussion of the climate emergency in Canada becomes more likely to produce effective action when all the details of the situation are openly available.

Source: http://cleanenergycanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Report_TER2019_CleanJobs.pdf

Merran Smith, in an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, describes research done by Clean Energy Canada in partnership with Navius Research that shows the almost 300,000 Canadians

 Partnering with Navius Research, Clean Energy Canada did a deep dive into our country’s clean-energy sector, compiling government and industry databases, sourcing financial statements and surveying businesses. Through that report, we found that Canada’s clean-energy sector employed 298,000 Canadians as of 2017. That sector includes companies and jobs that help cut carbon pollution, whether by creating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption, or making low-carbon technologies. And it has been growing in value by 4.8 per cent a year since 2010, significantly faster than the rest of the Canadian economy (3.6 per cent).1

in the clean energy sector have enterprises growing in value at 4.8 per cent a year. When growth in a sector is better than the Canadian average an incentive for investment is created.

Clean Energy Opportunities

Graham Thomson, writing in ipolitics, concludes Jason Kenney is not a climate change denier

But if Kenney was to accept the science, he’d have to then explain what he’ll do about it. And that tends to take politicians down the road of carbon taxes and climate leadership plans — and Kenney just won a provincial election campaigning against both.
That’s why Kenney felt he could stay in Ontario and campaign with his federal Conservative friends. If he rushed home and headed up to High Level he’d be making the wildfire into something of a crisis rather than just another forest fire. And as Kenney argues, “there have always been forest fires.”
Even though he’s correct that nobody can definitively say any particular forest fire was a direct result of climate change. But there was a time when we had premiers, not just of the NDP ilk, who accepted the argument that climate change was making things worse.2 

but a climate change dodger.

Source: https://ipolitics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CKM7684-1200x675.jpg

The dissonance we encounter when facts contradict what we have assumed

Coastal Erosion

is helpful in creating a plan to respond effectively to this serious change in fires, floods, heatwaves, hurricanes and coastal erosion that our children and grandchildren will need to combat.

References

1	(2019, May 23). Don't fear Canada's economic transition – our new economy is already .... Retrieved May 29, 2019, from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-dont-fear-canadas-economic-transition-our-new-economy-is-already/
2	(2019, May 29). Kenney not a climate change denier but a climate change dodger .... Retrieved May 29, 2019, from https://ipolitics.ca/2019/05/29/kenney-not-a-climate-change-denier-but-a-climate-change-dodger/