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Canada: Toronto flash flood won’t come as a surprise to those who pay attention to climate change
Posted by Straight: Charlie Smith on July 10th, 2013
Straight: I can't recall hearing this mentioned by any of the best-known weather forecasters in the business, such as Claire Martin, Mark Madryga (who shills for Port Metro Vancouver on the side), and Michael Kuss.
As a result, the public is given no indication that a flash flood in Toronto--in which the monthly average rainfall was dumped on the city in two hours--might be linked to carbon-dioxide emissions.
Weathercasters also avoided mentioning global warming when sections of Calgary and High River...
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Alberta is a centre of climate-change denial, but not all Albertans deny reality of global warming
Posted by Straight: Charlie Smith on June 22nd, 2013
Straight: I merely pointed out that climate-change deniers, such as former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Australian prime minister John Howard, each lost elections for taking this position.
And I suggested that the same fate could easily befall Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has modelled his career on Howard's.
That prompted Alberta progressives--and a few trolls--to attack me for characterizing Alberta as "Canada's centre of climate-change denial".
Some comments were...