Climate Archives - Page 10 of 12

Message from the CMOS President for February 2019: Advancing Climate Action in Canada

Written on March 13, 2019.

– By Paul Kushner, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto and CMOS President – At the end of February I was grateful for the special opportunity to participate in the National Climate...

Perspective: Should CMOS be Communicating More to Canadians on Climate Change?

Written on March 11, 2019.

– By John Loder, Scientist Emeritus, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography – Our Society’s Bulletin and website indicate that CMOS “exists for the advancement of...

Working Together for the Arctic: The Arctic Regional Climate Centre Network (ArcRCC)

Written on February 19, 2019.

– by Michael Crowe, Katherine Wilson, and John Parker – The effects of climate change are being felt around the world, but nowhere as intensely and as obviously as in the Arctic. Many...

image for message from CMOS president Paul Kushner on global warming shows a pocket watch half buried in sand

Message from the CMOS President for December 2018: Anthropogenic climate change and environmental sustainability

Written on December 29, 2018.

– By Paul Kushner, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto and CMOS President – To complete our review of the stewardship themes I identified at the time of the Halifax congress, it’s...

Catastrophes and The Insurance Industry

Written on December 20, 2018.

– by Laura Twidle, Director of Catastrophic Loss Analysis, Catastrophe Indices & Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) – Catastrophes not only disrupt communities and people’s lives, but they...

CMOS Statement on the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Written on November 22, 2018.

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) is the national society dedicated to advancing atmospheric, oceanic, and related environmental sciences in Canada. CMOS has more than 800...

A Look at Ontario’s Climate of the Future with the Ontario Climate Data Portal (OCDP)

Written on November 7, 2018.

– by Huaiping Zhu1, Ziwang Deng1, Jinliang Liu2, Xin Qiu3, Xiaoyu Chen1, Xiaolan Zhou1 – Climate change is undeniable, and scientists around the world agree that in the coming decades the...

Photo showing colourful umbrellas floating in the sky. The banner image for the interview with IFMS president Harinder Ahluwalia

IFMS: Uniting Meteorologists Around the World

Written on October 12, 2018.

– An Interview with Harinder Ahluwalia, IFMS President, by Bulletin Editor Sarah Knight – What does the IFMS do? The International Forum of Meteorological Societies (IFMS) represents National...

Ice: Nature and Culture

Written on September 17, 2018.

– Review by Bob Jones, CMOS Archivist – By Klaus Dodds, Published by Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 229 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-905-7, $ 24.95...