Hannah Hoag
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Journalist climate, energy, enviro, Arctic + | ✍ Nature, bioGraphic Hakai, Globe & Mail + | Past @ConversationCA Arctic Deeply | @hannahhoag.bsky.social
Toronto
Joined February 2008
Some news! . a thread 🧵. After more than five amazing years at the @ConversationCA, I'm returning to reporting, to cover climate change and the global energy transition (plus other important science/environment stories, of course). More TK. 1/10.
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RT @rahmstorf: We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t und….
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Even when 2 things seem to be in opposition, they can also be true: COVID is much better now than before, yet 100,000 people have died in the U.S. this year already. With cases rising, conversations about what we should do are challenging but needed.
statnews.com
While the angst over another rise in Covid cases is understandable, there’s something we need to grasp at this point in our coexistence with SARS-CoV-2: This is our life now.
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RT @_HannahRitchie: A common confusion is that to decarbonise, the world will need to produce the equivalent of coal, oil & gas in the form….
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Canada has had record-breaking wildfires this year. They’ve also reburned areas that were trying to make a comeback. It could lead to regeneration failure — the transition from spruce and pine to birch and aspen in boreal forest. My latest for the Globe:
theglobeandmail.com
Recurring wildfires are giving young coniferous forests too little time to mature, and leafy trees, shrubs and grasslands are taking hold in new, unfamiliar ecosystems
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RT @ONA: The 2023 ONA Community Award recognizes @SiriCarpenter for her work leading The Open Notebook, a nonprofit organization on a missi….
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Honoring a person, small team or community that have created inclusive working environments that enable colleagues to deliver game-changing journalism.
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An eye-opening graphic on wildfires in Canada by @Reuters
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Over four times as much land has burned in Canada in 2023 than in a typical wildfire season.
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RT @m_parrington: Comparison of cumulative total estimated carbon emissions from #wildfires across Canada with rapidly increasing values si….
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The bottom of this one small Ontario lake holds thousands of years of human history, and it could be the one place on Earth that best captures human influence on the chemistry and climate of the planet.
washingtonpost.com
Canada's Crawford Lake may hold evidence that humans have fundamentally changed Earth enough to have started the Anthropocene, a new chapter in geologic time.
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Lots of fantastic, well-reported stories on climate change here from around the world. Congrats to all the finalists. I can't wait to read/watch/listen to these:
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RT @GirardinMartin: Severity of drought conditions in boreal Canada has reached an unprecedented level in recent history when looking at th….
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RT @KenCaldeira: The National Park Service has put out this noise map for the contiguous United States. Noise pollution. The next frontier….
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Wrapping things up: North America saw the warmest May on record.
(1 of 5) IT’S OFFICIAL: Earth had its 3rd-warmest #May in 2023. North and South America saw their warmest May on record. Record-low May sea ice extent in the Antarctic. @NOAANCEI #StateOfClimate
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A new study looking at the California wildfires finds that the increase in the area burned over the past 50 years is due to human-caused climate change.
Our new study in @PNASNews shows that anthropogenic climate change is the major driver of the increase in summer forest fires in California, and the coming decades are likely to be worse:.. #climatechange #wildfires
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Climate change increases the frequency of lightning strikes. Between 1975 and 2015, Alaska and NWT have seen a rise in: .- number of lightning strikes.- total area burned .
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Those lightning strikes are responsible for two-thirds to four-fifths (67-81%) of the total area burned. One reason: wildfires are often in remote areas.
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Some politicians are wrongly suggesting the #wildfires were started by arson. Yes, it happens, but not that much. Lightning strikes ignite roughly half of the wildland fires in Canada.
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TikToks & other social media posts are spreading #misinformation about #wildfires in Canada. They falsely say they were started deliberately by helicopters, drones or "directed energy weapons" (??!).
mediamatters.org
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‘But eventually, you have to look at the trendline and go, “Normal is changing.”’.
When NYC's skies turned orange, I immediately thought of the 1st episode of "Extrapolations," the Apple TV+ climate series that opens in 2037 in NYC amid wildfires. I talked to show creator Scott Z. Burns about climate reality outstripping climate fiction.
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RT @SandraZellmer: First US Climate Trial Begins, Led by Kids #Climate #biodiversity #environmental.
scientificamerican.com
The nation’s first climate trial, led by kids, will open on Monday in Montana but could have ramifications outside the state’s borders
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