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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 11h

What global temperature are the majority of Canadians aiming for?

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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 22h

AI is being used to improve weather and climate prediction... But not in a make-you-dumber, planet-destroying, chatgpt kinda way.

New vid, ft. my best segue yet, here:

youtu.be/7gCbK1f0Zjc

Thanks to Kirstine Dale at the @metoffice.gov.uk for explaining how tech can enhance weather prediction ⛅

Is AI about to revolutionise weather & climate forecasting?

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 17h

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Fire regime changes in Canada: an update

Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

cdnsciencepub.com

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm more than middle aged and am working up the courage to ditch Windows 10 and install Linux 😱

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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · 1d

The PM said additional national interest projects will be announced in the coming weeks. This has us thinking about projects that prepare Canada for the future, not set us further apart. What national projects would you like to see funded in Canada?

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, Jim Stanford was at the Canadian Senate Finance committee meeting and he also noted that Canada has to do something to reverse that Canadian investment in the US - especially our pension plans.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure how it is a 'smear'. As a Canadian, it was offputting for our PM to be promoting Canadian private investment *into* the US. On top of what we may well pay into US military-industrial complex.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention pushing Keystone XL

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d

NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief

On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday Trump said Americans don't want to buy Canadian made vehicles. So our opening up to EU and Chinese vehicles shouldn't be an issue with it comes to CUSMA.

And at this point, I'm just talking about imports while we cross the manufacturing bridge

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the rhetoric is easy to discount. I rarely hear him mention combatting climate change. And his actions to date imply he doesn't see it as that strong of a moral obligation. Meanwhile, North America will be left behind in the transition.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

Given American automakers, along with our governments, are wallowing on that clear future, the least Carney can do is facilitate imports of more affordable EVs into our country to tide us over.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

Carney's use of the term "Tragedy of the Horizon" addresses that 'reading the room properly' issue. And at this point it is a Tragedy of the Here and Now

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2d

"reading the room properly"? In terms of public opinion, perhaps. In terms of the planet being on fire, no, he did not read anything 'properly'. The current moment absolutely does demand a full court press, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong.

🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

He’s not a career politician so why did he want to get elected? He doesn’t need the job, right?

Perhaps he realizes that the current moment does not demand a full court press on climate change. I’m not saying he’s right to ignore it, but he definitely was reading the room properly.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

Can we call premiers or other politicians unCanadian for not reducing GHGs significantly?

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

Cars and alcohol ... great combo ! :)

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 3d

"There’s a battle underway to win the energy export market between the world’s two largest economies: The US wants the world to buy its fossil fuels, while China wants to sell the world its clean energy technologies. For now, there is a clear winner: China." - Akshat Rathi

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 3d

And here is the percentage of the world's land area setting a new all-time monthly maximum temperature record in each decade:

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3d

I watched a couple of the Finance Committee meetings in recent years when Tiff Macklem was there. Better than Question Period. Though some of the questions were just as bad as the framing in Question Period.

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 3d

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

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Ron @mrwx4caster.bsky.social · 4d

...very warm out there, with some humidity (Td's in the ~mid-teens average) thought I'd produce a Humidex chart/analysis with 3PM EDT data...cause it's October😅 (average Humidex ~30-33 C) fits the light yellow shading area...not bad. (numbers are actual temps)

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 5d

I have always had a great deal of respect for her

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 5d

We have a dozen tiny garden gnomes in a garden along the sidewalk. Toddlers often squeal and sometimes play with them. Today a cool-looking ~30yr-old dude stopped, knelt down, and carefully rearranged them into a little party on a stump, then continued on his way smoking a cigar. Happy Saturday all!

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