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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...

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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)....

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Canadian Weathercasters as Climate Change Communicators

Written on March 22, 2019.

– By Bronwyn McIlroy-Young, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia – Canadians are increasingly looking for information about how their...

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...

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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...