Climate Change on the Canadian Prairies - A New Normal

Wetter Winters, and drier Summers, that’s what is most likely to happen if climate change goes as simulated.

You can learn what to do about it, resigning yourself to the futility of stopping our changing climate, and prepare yourself to make the most of a bad situation. “More Summer? Hell Yeah!” is a common refrain from knee-jerk commentators, but a quick examination of Canada’s worse natural disasters reveals we’re in for some rocky decades of hurt.

Saskboy K.
Hey David Sauchyn used “hooped” just like I tweeted of my own description earlier, re: our climate outlook.

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Saskboy K.
Top 5 Canadian natural disasters in terms of cost? DROUGHT! (2. was the eastern ice storm a decade ago)

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Saskboy K
The change in SK water supply is the impending disaster of climate change here. More water in Winter, but less in Summer?

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Saskboy K.
“celebrate days like this” we get virtually all of our water from glaciers, and without them we’re hooped.

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Saskboy K.
If prairie temperature changes only 4 degrees, Spring could arrive a month earlier, as snow melts faster.

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Saskboy K.
David S. coauthor of The New Normal giving talk. 30 year normal lets us see shift in expected mean.

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Saskboy K.

@davidamaclean apparently they did. Perhaps I’m leaving out part of that slide. Also set 30 years as a climate normal period in 1930s. [ I think it was to simplify simulations, so they could be computed with available technology. ]

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Saskboy K.
Tree rings, based on growth annually, gives us temperatures from the distant past.

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Saskboy K.
To about 1960, climate was assumed to be constant. Climate change is a shift in the PROBABILITY of mean temperatures.

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