Five-alarm summer
Hunger stone from the Elbe River, Czechia. Photo by Dr. Bernd Gross, Creative Commons
Canadians escaped the worst of this summer’s climate impacts, touch wood, but alarm bells are ringing around the world.
South of the border, CNN’s meteorologist opened the Labour Day forecast declaring, “America is burning up.” California, in particular, has been roasting. Heat records are falling like birds from the sky throughout central and southern California and, by the time you read this, a rare hurricane will have brought fierce winds up the coast from its landfall in Mexico.