The great thaw: Canada must lead climate change battle in a time of disappearing ice and snow
It is now time for Canadians to prepare for 'cryospheric destruction' and it is going to be a distressing experience. We must prepare for earlier, smaller, and less reliable snowmelt and, hence, less reliable river flows and lake levels that supply drinking water, irrigation water, hydropower, and cold-loving fish such as trout and salmon.
As a scientist at COP29, I was deeply dismayed to see yet another failure of negotiations to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases to a level that would save our winters and what is collectively called “the cryosphere”—snowpacks, glaciers, lake and river ice, permafro...
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