Extreme Canadian Weather

Interesting reads on climate change

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 11:46 AM.

Climate Change 101 from David Suzuki's site.

Is climate change getting you down? Read this blog post on David Suzuki's "Docs Talk"

A link to Arctic Meltdown from The Nature of Things

Climate change solutions and ideas

And, well, then there's this...which is a classic anti-climate change view of the world. A disclaimer...Bob Carter is a well-known climate skeptic in Australia.

What's the worst that could happen?

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on at 11:41 AM.

George Monbiot on Climate Change

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM.

George Monbiot, the author of Heat (one of the best books for the public about cliamte change), recently posted a two minute video on climate change. Check it out. Watch a follow-up discussion that Monbiot has with a climate-skeptic.

East African Drought

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM.

Climate Frontline Africa

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on at 11:27 AM.

Climate Frontline Africa

View more presentations from FARM-Africa.

Drought

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on at 11:19 AM.

Drought disaster and natural resources

View more presentations from guesteaed2c.

Archived data and images for Weather Journal

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 11:01 AM.

Thanks to Emma Hicks for sending information on where to retrieve archived radar images: here and to Darren Hiltz for sending information on where to retrieve information on weather warnings issued in previous months: here

Meteorologists and Snowmaggedon...makes for a crazy mixture!

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 at 6:43 PM.

New Wind Record

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 5:07 PM.

A new record for a wind gust has been set (407 km/hr!). Read about it here.
On a related note, there have been discussions about having the next Geography Department field trip go to New Hamshire and visit Mount Washington (among other things). We would go in fine weather, of course! What do you think?

Here comes the rain....

0 Comments Published by CBEMN on Monday, January 25, 2010 at 6:15 PM.

: Name: CBEMN; Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Blog was initiated as part of the inaugural "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" workshop, held at SMU on May 12, 2010. This is part of the Teacher Scholar programme for 2010-2011. If you have any posts, curriculum, ideas or inspired content that you would like to include, please send it to Dr. Cathy Conrad, the 2010-2011 Teaching Scholar, Associate Professor of the Department of Geography. I look forward to moderating this site and linking useful and relevant information. I hope you find it useful!

View my complete profile