Terrible #Canadian Climate Change Report Shocks #World

In short: there’s never been a more crucial time to take action.  

 

 

 

By Rachel Chen

What You Need To Know About The New Canadian Climate Change Report

 Usually, when scientists talk about the front lines of climate change, it calls to mind small island nations at risk of being flooded by rising sea levels. But when Environment and Climate Change Canada released Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR) on April 1, it emphasized that Canada’s North has started melting. In other words, climate change has hit home.

It’s the first report from an initiative that Natural Resources Canada began in 2017 to assess how climate change is impacting the country—and what we should do next. The CCCR will lay the basis for future reports that will provide suggestions to mitigate the worst effects of climate change moving forward.

Unfortunately, it’s projected that Canada overall will warm at almost twice the global average regardless of what we do to fight it. (Oh, and Northern Canada has already warmed at three times the global rate.) On the brighter side, there are still ways to reduce future global warming. Here’s what you need to know.

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CANADA WARMING TWICE WORLD RATE 
 

 

 

Sixth #Species #Extinction - Who's Next?

“The more we damage nature’s fabric the more we imperil our own future.”

EXTINCTION – Mammals on Death Row

Mankind is driving a mass extinction that could obliterate large swathes of life on Earth for millions of years, scientists have warned in a new study. The US National Academy of Sciences has published a report in its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), on the 15 October called “Mammals diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis”.

The report speaks of the current sixth mass extinction of animal and plant species caused entirely by humans that is as severe as any of the previous five extinction events in the past 450 million years. It is moving so rapidly that natural evolution cannot keep up. This is horrifying. Although this has been known for some decades, Governments mostly do not care and the public at large is only now becoming aware of it. The period of time since the last mass extinction 66 million years ago, that killed the dinosaurs, is known as the ‘Age of Mammals. Our own species is a child of this age. Most mammal species, just like us, give birth to live offspring, have females that secrete milk for the nourishment of the young and live in family based communities.

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Humanity's #Legacy on Planet's History #Cataclysmic?

" ...is likely to leave a legacy of the Anthropocene as one of the most cataclysmic events in the history of our planet.”

The Age of Humans

BY DAVID MARINELLI

t was Nobel Prize winning Dutch chemist, Paul Crutzen, who coined the term ‘Anthropocene’ (The Age of Humans) to represent this human dominated geological epoch. He put forward his arguments in a short essay published in the journal Nature called the Geology of Mankind in January 2002. His argument was based on the following facts:

• Human activity has transformed between a third and a half of the land surface area of the planet
• Most of the world’s major rivers have been dammed or diverted
• Fertiliser plants produce more Nitrogen than is fixed naturally by terrestrial ecosystems
• Fisheries production remove more than a third of the primary production of the oceans coastal waters
• Humans use more than half of the world’s readily accessible fresh water runoff

The 5th Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, also known as the K-T extinction, occurred 66 million years ago and it annihilated 76% of all plant and animal species on Earth. This is the mass extinction that also killed off all the dinosaurs. It was caused by an asteroid hitting the planet at the Yucatan Peninsula that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea. The bolide was travelling at seventy thousand kilometres per hour and coming in at a low trajectory from the southeast. It hit the ground as a plane landing and blasted into the air more than fifty times its own size in pulverized rock. A vast cloud of searing vapour and debris raced over North America, vapourising everything in its path. All this sulphur laden ejected debris had two major catastrophic effects. Firstly as it fell back to Earth through the atmosphere it incandesced scorching the surface of the Earth and secondly the sulphur blocked the rays of the sun depressing global temperatures and catapulted the earth into a perennial winter.

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WHY CIVILIZATIONS COLLAPSE

Morgan #Freeman a Real #SUPERHERO Saving Honey #Bees

"the decline of bee populations will continue to have ripple effects on wild vegetation and agricultural crops around the world"

Actor Morgan Freeman attends a reception hosted by President Barack Obama Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

 By Trevor Nance

Morgan Freeman Converted His 124-Acre Ranch Into A Giant Honeybee Sanctuary To Save The Bees

Morgan Freeman, the actor, film director and philanthropist has added a new title to his name: Beekeeper. The 81-year-old celebrity decided to convert his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary.

Freeman's foray into beekeeping began in 2014, where he discussed his new hobby with Jimmy Fallon during The Tonight Show. Freeman had taken up beekeeping just a couple of weeks before appearing on the show and talked about his experience keeping bees and the need to preserve and save wild bees for healthy environments.

As part of his interview, Freeman talked a bit about the motivation as to why he began beekeeping. "There is a concerted effort for bringing bees back onto the planet…We do not realize that they are the foundation, I think, of the growth of the planet, the vegetation..."

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Real "SUPERHERO" Morgan Freeman, Creates Bee Sanctuary