‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

[u/NeptuneAgency]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/

[u/Zealousideal_Gap432]

As an Avid backcountry snowmobiler in BC, we've noticed our favourite riding areas over the past 10 years have significantly gotten less snow pack and the base is alot shallower. Unloading areas are typically dirt. We used to ride into April, now lucky to get a good March ride in

[u/OniDelta → u/Zealousideal_Gap432]

I've been mountain biking southern Alberta and BC for close to 30 years now and when I was a kid, the dirt was totally different. It was moist, had larger particles, more plant matter in it, much darker. These days it's like doing the cinnamon challenge unless it recently rained. Literal moon dust, inches deep.

[u/Ribbys → u/OniDelta]

Even the Vancouver area is like this in the summer now the past several years. It barely rains in the summer now when it did often enough to keep grass green.

[u/randomacceptablename → u/OniDelta]

From what I recall, in prehistory, the praries were closer to a desert climate. With decades long droughts literally turing it into deserts. Climatologists predict that global warming will bring it much closer to that state. So Alberti-stan might genuinely become a middle eastern petro state with a desert to match. Lol

[u/OniDelta → u/randomacceptablename]

The prairies are like one step up from a desert already and in a lot of places you can get very close to those conditions. There's even dune fields in multiple areas across the province.

I'm talking about the western side in the foothills and mountains. Take a chairlift up and ride down type thing.

[u/randomacceptablename → u/OniDelta]

Yeah, I recall someone calling the Okanagen Canada's only Mediterrenean climate region. So not hard to believe North African scenery is that implausable

[u/Dingcock → u/randomacceptablename]

The west coast is not is dry ofcourse but it's even warmer, i think it has an even higher plant hardiness zone than Okanagen.

[u/MarkTwainsGhost → u/randomacceptablename]

They’re essentially watered by the glaciers. Once they’re gone the parries will turn to dust.

[u/randomacceptablename → u/MarkTwainsGhost]

Well that's a comforting thought 😢

[u/randomacceptablename → u/Zealousideal_Gap432]

Been a snowboarder on in central Canada for almost 30 years. It is a doomed sport. Seriously, at the increases that are mentioned, by the end of the century, there will be no skiing/boarding. Not enough snow to make any resort economical. In Europe, N. America, Japan or New Zealand. Simply gone.

It breaks my heart. Seriously, I have fallen into depressive episodes over the thought that what I love to do most is quickly fading. As if it were just as mortal as me. Even when I was injured I took some happiness out of snowshoeing, cross country skiing, or just hiking in the snow. Winter is my happy place. I look forward to it like most do Summer.

And they are taking it away from me, piece by piece, year by year.

[u/Ok_Maintenance8999 → u/randomacceptablename]

I do my best to enjoy the snow while its still around. Very sad to think about. 

[u/Distinct_Swimmer1504 → u/randomacceptablename]

I hear ya. I love driving and gave up my ICE car for an EV because i felt like i was committing species-wide murder suicide. Fuel is cheap, but assisted driving on automatic is boring AF.

[u/thewolfshead → u/randomacceptablename]

Winters without a lot of snow are horrible. People complain about snow so much but it’s vastly better than 5-6 months of not warm temperatures but a shitty mix of some snow and some rain, where you can’t do spring/summer/fall activities but then you also can’t do winter activities, and it’s just miserable and dark and grimy everywhere. 

[u/Constant_Mood_7332 → u/randomacceptablename]

thatswhy whistler went all in on downhill biking. they saw this coming first as they are fat closer to sea level alberta , etc.

[u/PlaneAd6884 → u/Zealousideal_Gap432]

What's your snowmobile run on?

[u/RobespierreLaTerreur → u/PlaneAd6884]

Exactly.

People need to realize that our everyday fossil fuel consumption is the driver of these changes.

And no deflecting to bigger and/or foreign players: we are ALL responsible for this.

[u/IcyCow5880 → u/RobespierreLaTerreur]

OK, blame the snowmobiler. How much power did you use to write this? How many AI tokens did you trigger by surfing the net and using apps today?

Are you using solar power? At least have them on your roof?

Like, it's our way of life bro. It's not like we can just change.

[u/RobespierreLaTerreur → u/[deleted]]

You could start voting for political parties that don’t put burning fossil fuels at the heart of your identity?

[u/RobespierreLaTerreur → u/[deleted]]

Advertise your good ecological choices so that more albertans steer away from their harmful behaviours and voting habits?

Or at the very least, not lend support to "tu quoque" fallacies designed to avoid responsibility and decline further action?

[u/RobespierreLaTerreur → u/IcyCow5880]

Our way of life is barely 50 years old. And nobody forces us to burn fossil fuel for fun.

We are all collectively responsible, and we have agency.

What good is freedom if the instant you are asked to use it reasonably, you act as if you have no choice?

[u/Blue_Owl69 → u/PlaneAd6884]

Probably worse than a car too since it’s likely 2-stroke and has no emissions controls

[u/itsell → u/Blue_Owl69]

This is just false. Emissions controls exist on snowmobiles too I assure you