For Canada’s climate refugees, the coming weeks will be disruptive and traumatic says an Irishman in Canada
Adapting to summer meant a lighter dress code, eating more fruit and salads, drinking more fluids and applying “heat hygiene” measures – induction cooking, an instant cooker and low heat-gain electronic devices.
If Montreal summer temperatures reach 40 degrees, as they have in other regions, I’ll need a bigger air conditioner. In British Columbia, in June 2021, summer temperatures reached an incredible 50 degrees; more than 600 people died from heat-related causes. Mega forest fires raged and, in theA quick glance at the fire map, and you’d think that most of Northern Canada is burning
When prevailing winds blew the smoke south, air quality in metropolitan centres fell off a cliff. For a few days Ottawa’s air quality was “very high risk”; Toronto’s was “high risk” and inMap of Canada with borders, cities As the summer rolled out, new fires kept breaking out, especially in the western provinces. The June total of more than 400 ballooned to more than 1,000 fires in mid-August. A quick glance at the fire map, and you’d think that most of Northern Canada is burning., the capital of the North West Territories, evacuated its 20,000 residents. Then fires in British Columbia suddenly took a turn for the worse. Homes, stores, buildings and a historic tourist resort burned.
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