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Tell that to British Columbia. BC is famed for stable temperatures. Thats why it is the most desireable place to live in Canada. Vancouver rarely gets below -5 or above 30, and then only ever for a day at a time. Then last week Lytton BC became hotter than a Saudi summer, shattering Canada's all-time hottest temperature by several degrees. Over a period of _days_ everything dried out. Lightning started fires. Now Lytton doesnt exist anymore. 90% burned to the ground and many dead. Climate change means change: the stable is becomes unstable and the moderate becomes extreem.

Roads in western canda are literally failing under this heat.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-infrastructu...

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Lytton is in the middle of the Fraiser River valley, it has always been hot AF in the middle of summer. Vancouver is far away on the coast. Median temperature in Lytton around Aug 1st is 30C and it has hit ~40C a bunch over its historical record.

This event was, of course, very extreme, but its not that surprising it happened in Lytton.

And the whole Frasier river valley is getting hit hard by climate change and forest fires, pretty much every summer.

It might seem weird because its so far north, but its climate is more like drought-striken areas of WA/OR/CA.

‘Fraser’, no ‘i’. After Simon Fraser, an explorer of western Canada.

Would you swear on your life it wasn't named after Dr. Frasier Crane, esteemed psychologist of the Pacific Northwest?

I didn't think so.

So far north? London is further north than both vancouver and lytton.

London is anomalously warm for its latitude due to the Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt.

I think that's the part people need to hear - we're moving from semi-stable to a more chaotic climate.

The extremes are moving, and it doesn't take many shifts to destroy everything. E.g. dry + fire, or ice + time, or storms + floods, or humidity + time

Not entirely sure what people need to hear. We need better models and problem definitions.

So better documentation of exactly how badly we are screwed? The ship is sinking. We can measure water inflow to better predict how long we have, or we can start plugging the holes asap and pray we can do so in time.

The story at the moment is a 2 deg c up tick, that sounds pretty fine to me. So we don't get snow so often? OK, but the summers are nicer. All good.

But if the reality is that wild fires burn my house to the ground and snow storms cut me off, freeze my pipes and stop me getting to work - now I'm listening.

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