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Paul Beckwith on the fires at Port McMurray, Alberta
Paul
Beckwith consented to (for him) late-night conversation to fill me in
on the latest from the forest fires in Alberta.
The
very latest is that a change of wind is forecast which would take the
fire in the direction of the tar sands operations and all that that
entails, in which case all bets are off.
From Paul Beckwith's site
Fort McMurray’s 88,000 Climate Refugees, Climate Casino
Fort
McMurray’s 80,000 Climate Refugees (now 88,000):
Fort Mac Alberta Lucks Out In Climate Casino
Fort Mac Alberta Lucks Out In Climate Casino
Don’t
get me wrong. I empathize with the people from Fort McMurray. Many
lost their homes and memories. I also empathize with the people
of Houston
that had waterworld a
few weeks ago. And with the people in India
who have endured massive fires for
a month. And with the millions that will starve to death
because the coral reefs are dying and can no longer support
biodiversity and the 25% of the worlds fish that live on them.
Should
I go on? I could go on for hours. Even days…
We
have a global climate change emergency on our plates. As soon as the
public recognizes this then governments will be forced to act. The
sooner the better…
Fort
McMurray’s 80,000 Climate Refugees // Published on May 4, 201
Fort
McMurray was incinerated in a wildfire creating 80,000 climate
refugees overnight. As tragic as this fire was, it is just one more
city being destroyed in our climate change casino. Every city on our
planet is vulnerable. Governments must do the right thing and declare
a global climate change emergency.
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Fort
Mac Alberta Lucks Out In Climate Casino // Published on May 4,
2016
Yet another city gets destroyed in our global climate change casino. A few weeks ago it was Houston drowning. This week it is Fort McMurray, Alberta being destroyed. Next week it could be your city or mine…
In
the above video titled “Fort McMurray’s 80,000 Climate
Refugees”, I explained why we are in a global climate change
emergency. Here I elaborate.
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On October
24, 2013 I wrote ‘Are
Alberta’s Tar Sands prepared for a torrential rain event?‘,
which examine the risk of the Alberta tar sands being flooded out by
a torrential rain event, exacerbated by abrupt climate change…
I
will need to revisit threats to this region, and analyze the
flammability of the tailings ponds and the bitumen extraction
regions, including the trees that are clear-cut, the peat that is
scraped away and the underlying bitumen, which is like asphalt.
Natural gas, which is >90% methane is highly flammable and
is used to melt the bitumen, which is mixed with dilutants (also
flammable). A disaster waiting to happen…
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