Storms kill more people than any other extreme weather event–a reported 242,000 deaths in the 2o years to 2015. Any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5C degrees, or even 2C above the pre-industrial global temperature, as sought in the December 2015 Paris Accord, evaporated in 2017. No one knows how high the temperature […]
Tag: Population
New Canadians arrive by the shipload
“Seventeen special trains from Halifax and Saint John are due in Montreal” Saturday and Sunday, carrying 6,000 immigrants,” the Halifax Herald reported April 2, 1910. More than 12,000 arrived during the week. It has been “the biggest week in the immigration line that Canada has had for a good many years,” says the Herald. Most […]