As we lived through the hottest summer in recorded history – with freak climate-change fires in BC, floods in Alberta – what did Mulcair promise?
The Natural History of the elder Pliny, who died during disaster relief efforts in the wake of the eruption of Vesuvius, is a vast collection on flora and fauna, gems and minerals, climate, medicine, freaks of nature, works of art, and antiquarian lore.
An extraordinarily high Arctic temperature anomaly was one of 2016's most alarming climate stories, with the freak temperature referred to as "insane" by the Washington Post.
Climate change means more incidents of freak and increasingly severe weather.
After ruling out factors such as glaciation or climate change, the team concluded that freak catastrophes such as devastating wildfires followed by floods most likely account for the difference in rates, they report in the July issue of Geology.
In weather-obsessed Britain, the freak weather patterns were raised at a summit of climate scientists convened on Tuesday to discuss the recent run of unusual seasons in Europe in a cycle that began in 2007.
Each year the fossil fuel industry kills millions of people also through climate impacts like Superstorms, heat waves, and freak floods.
This isn't a problem in the Gulf, where save for a freak power cut the constant electricity supply maintains a climate-controlled habitat.
Inevitably, climate change will increase the frequency and severity of these "freak" weather events.
So it's no surprise that climate scientists are scrambling to learn whether these events merely constituted a freak coincidence or evidenced a frightening trend.
