Climate Change: The 40 Year Delay Between Cause and Effect

The estimate of 40 years for climate lag, the time between the cause (increased greenhouse gas emissions) and the effect (increased temperatures), has profound negative consequences for humanity. However, if governments can find the will to act, there are positive consequences as well.

With 40 years between cause and effect, it means that average temperatures of the last decade are a result of what we were thoughtlessly putting into the air in the 1960’s. It also means that the true impact of our emissions over the last decade will not be felt until the 2040’s. This thought should send a chill down your spine!

Summer's Officially Over: What Did It Show Us About Climate Change? - Adam Werbach - Business - The Atlantic

Even if you don't believe that changes in the weather signal global warming, or that global warming is a real threat, you should know that those who do believe that global warming is real threat -- along with those who at least act on the assumption that global warming is a real threat -- are the ones setting the agenda for tomorrow's economy.

Farmers feel bite of frost in high-yield year for grain

Only about eight per cent of the province's harvest is complete as persistent rain has saturated soils and made it impossible to get equipment into many fields.

And a hard frost that hit most areas except the south last weekend will affect the quality of late-seeded crops. Temperatures below -2.2 C can kill plants, and some central and northwest areas reached -7 C last weekend.

NYC's CoolRoofs Initiative Gets a Boost During Climate Week | Reuters

Accompanied by former Vice President Al Gore, who helped daub a toof, Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched NYCº CoolRoofs last fall as part of the PlaNYC initiative to cut city greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

The CoolRoofs program is closing in on its self-imposed deadline to coat 1 million square feet of roofs by next month. As of early today, the program had covered 778,775 square feet of roofs with cool coatings.