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Updated CMOS Position Statement on Climate Change

Written on September 7, 2019.

The process of revising the CMOS position statement on climate change: In August 2019, the CMOS Council approved a revised position statement on climate change. The previous statement dated from 2014...

Message from the CMOS President for August 2019: Working for Our Members, So They Can Work for Science

Written on August 31, 2019.

– By Kimberly Strong, CMOS President and Professor & Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto – The news is awash with stories of ongoing, climate-related disasters from...

Historical Weather Data Rescue with McGill’s DRAW (Data Rescue: Archives and Weather), in Canada and around the world

Written on August 20, 2019.

– By Victoria Slonosky, McGill University, Montreal, Canada – To know how the climate is changing, we need to know what the climate was like in the past. Historical weather records are...

Climate in the Age of Empire: Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Written on August 10, 2019.

– Review by Richard Leduc, Ph.D., AirMet Science Inc., rleduc@airmetscience.com – By Victoria C. Slonosky, Published by the American Meteorological Society, paperback, 288 pages, ISBN 9781944970208,...

The Ice at the End of the World

Written on June 22, 2019.

– Review by Phil Chadwick, Meteorologist and Eco-Artist – By Jon Gertner, Published by Penguin Random House, Hardcover, 448 pages, ISBN 9780812996623, $28.00 (USD) You can’t make this stuff...

CMOS at the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal, July 9th to 14th

Written on June 19, 2019.

Formed in 1919, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) this year celebrates 100 years, and CMOS gets to be a part of it, as our congress coincides with their general assembly in Montreal...

Message from the CMOS President for April 2019: Building Resilience to Climate Change, with Grace under Pressure

Written on May 13, 2019.

– By Paul Kushner, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto and CMOS President – The warnings started in mid April: a deep and rapidly melting central/eastern Canadian snowpack and many...

Photo shows a smiliing Bob Kochtubajda, caucasian man, balding with glasses, for his article on the 2014 wildfire season in the NWT

Extreme 2014 wildfire season in the Northwest Territories

Written on April 29, 2019.

– By Bob Kochtubajda1, Ron Stewart2, Mike Flannigan3, Barrie Bonsal1, Charles Cuell4, and Curtis Mooney1 – 1. Environment and Climate Change Canada; 2. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,...

Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR)

Written on April 22, 2019.

Scientists from Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Natural Resources Canada, and university experts collaborated to produce Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR)....