| Climate Change is a subpage of www.nsforestmatters.ca/Ecol. Forestry & Conservation. Subpages: – Climate Change Impacts on NS Forests – Carbon/GHG
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Exposures at Five Islands Prov. Park NS can help us to understand the significance of anthropogenically-induced climate change. “Currently, human activities are causing carbon dioxide levels to change more rapidly than volcanoes, asteroids, or anything else in Earth’s 4.5 billion year history.” – Putting it in perspective: Climate change yesterday and today (evolution.berkeley.edu)
Links to select items particularly pertinent to NS
– Nova Scotia’s Changing Climate
Page on novascotia.ca (Gov website) Topics: Rising temperatures, Changing precipitation patterns, More frequent and intense storms, Rising sea levels, Changing oceans
– Climate of Nova Scotia
Wikipedia/Needs updating, but useful stats on avg rainfall etc.
– How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
Sandra Upson in Wired, July 25, 2024. “A gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse. Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen had a simple yet controversial question: How much time might we have left to save it?…The AMOC transports a staggering amount of energy. Like a million nuclear power plants. It is such a core element of the Earth system that its collapse would radically alter regional weather patterns, the water cycle, the ability of every country to provide food for its inhabitants… The two scientists made a plot of the numbers and a neat cluster emerged. Yes—2057. But that’s just the middle point: In 95 percent of the model’s simulations, the AMOC tipped sometime between 2025 and 2095… In footnote 4 of the IPCC’s latest big report, “very unlikely” meant that, in the panelists’ view, the AMOC had less than a 1-in-10 chance of collapsing before 2100. One in 10. Those odds didn’t strike him as “very unlikely.” Russian roulette is one in six, and we all agree that’s a bad idea. Plus, the IPCC had given its prognosis only a “medium confidence” rating. To Ditlevsen, that sounded a lot like “we have no clue.”
– Waters off Scotian Shelf are cooling, but scientists can’t say for how long
Paul Withers · CBC News, May 08, 2024
Lower temperatures have scientists wondering if decade-long warming trend is over
– Climate change: Correlation between wildfires, flooding in Nova Scotia
Hina Alam, The Canadian Press, July 25, 2023, on cp24.com ” There is a correlation between rising temperatures, wildfires and heavier rainfall, said Kent Moore, an atmospheric physics professor at the University of Toronto.”