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Okanagan climate change results in drought, wildfires
Warmer, drier summers are lowering water levels and threatening salmon habitat as climate change reshapes the Okanagan’s water cycle, researchers said.
- The Okanagan faces very low water levels caused by a warmer climate, creating warmer water temperatures that threaten aquatic habitats and the struggling salmon population.
- Our Earth's atmosphere is heating up mostly from burning fossil fuels and methane from livestock and garbage decomposing. Together these "greenhouse gases" trap heat causing global warming, disrupting natural ecosystems that evolved over thousands of years.
- The City of Vernon offers local resources including "Vernon's Climate Action Plan- Vernon.ca/climate-action- Basics about climate change and its impacts on cities, what the City is doing about it, and what residents anywhere can do to help maintain a healthy environment."
- Growing drought conditions and heat create massive, frequent, intense wildfires, while extreme rain downpours produce floods in some areas as natural ecosystems cannot adapt to rapid environmental shifts.
- Everyone needs to do their part by living more lightly on Earth; residents can get outside to experience natural environments, walk or cycle to get around, and always be CAREful of the environment.
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Okanagan climate change results in drought, wildfires
Our Earth’s atmosphere is heating up mostly from burning fossil fuels and methane from livestock and garbage decomposing, plus nitrous oxide from fossil fertilizers. Together these “greenhouse gases” trap heat causing global warming. Remember the science experiment with a smouldering stick in a beaker? As it’s heated, the smoke moves quickly and erratically demonstrating that air molecules move faster as heat increases. This explains why extreme…
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