why are climate canaries in the news now?

Question

i dont want the definition, I want to know a latest event of Climate Canary

Answer 1

Let's see...

In 2005, the higher number of hurricanes was proof that global warming was real. That was the "climate canary" then.

In 2006, the fewer than average number of hurricanes was proof that global warming was real. Fewer hurricanes was the "climate canary" that year.

This years it's melting ice caps. Next year it will probably be increase ice.....

Answer 2

Your question is a very vague one due in part that the term "climate canary" is a broad term that will eventually effect earth's population world wide, in short if you know your mining history canaries were used to detect poison gas in mine shafts so that minors could evacuate before suffocating to death, and loosely translated to people this means these people will be the first to die from the effect of global warming, I am particular to the continent of Africa as I have friends in that location, and the latest news was dated November 2006 stated this, "Kenya's herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands. They are dubbed the "climate canaries" the people destined to become the first victims of world climate change. As government ministers sat down in Nairobi at this weekend's UN Climate Conference, the herdsmen likely to be wiped out by devastating global warming were only a few hundred kilometers away, trying to survive on land savaged by successive droughts."

If this does not answer your question then you need to narrow your question down to a more specific topic.

Answer 3

Hi Aditi,
Sorry I don't know the answer regarding this topic. I m in a software developer profession.
I have no knowledge about 'climate canaries'. I think Google or any other search engine helps u.

Answer 4

Apocalyptic warnings of melting ice-caps? Millions of refugees worldwide made homeless by rising seas? Forget it. If you want to mobilise the middle-classes into action on climate change, warn them of the threat to their gardens and the country’s stately homes.

Persuade them to see Exposed – climate change in Britain’s backyard at Hoopers Gallery in London.

The exhibition of photographs commissioned by the National Trust hits home hard. “Every picture tells a story” proclaims the exhibition. But it’s not true: though the pictures are excellent, the stories they are intended to illustrate need captions.

Dramatic storm photographs, for example, are neutral without the information that “coastal towns and villages are already feeling the brunt of wild storms, with the effects made worse by rising seas.”

Fortunately, the text accompanying the photographs is excellent, too – informative and to the point.

And what points they make:

* Increased flooding may force resettlement

* There is no longer a “permanent” winter snowline in Snowdonia. ("Will Snowdon have to be renamed?")

* Visitors to Studland beach in Dorset “are bringing more shade with them to the beach – they also need to be on the lookout for jellyfish and weaver fish basking in the shallows on warm days” [and if you have never trodden on a weaver fish you cannot imagine how painful a development that could be]

* “British cattle breeds suffer in extreme heat. If we continue to have hot summers like 2006 we will have to ask whether we can maintain them. Even this far north”, Andrew Poad, property manager at Broomlee Lough, Northumberland is quoted as saying, “we may have to switch to Southern European cattle”

* “Some farmers could have to change what they grow altogether”

The eight photographers show a country where the climate is beginning to change, where exotic new species (such as aeonum, native to the Canary Islands) are taking root and spreading, where beech trees are literally dying of sunburn, where ancient harbours look set to disappear.

And, shout it from on high, two favourite pastimes – gardening and visiting National Trust properties – are in the firing line. “For the people who look after our [historic] houses and their contents, climate change means more than rain and damp problems.

“Insect numbers in our historic houses are booming too. Historically important books, paintings, furniture, tapestries, are all under threat from the insect invasion.”

It gets worse. Many species of birds - the holiest of British cows - are at risk. At Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland, “nesting colonies of seabirds…face increasing difficulties. Nests, eggs and chicks have already been washed away by the sea.”

Once word gets out that birds and back gardens are really threatened, politicians will have to act.

So congratulations to the National Trust for organising this show, and for arranging for highlights from the exhibition to tour Trust properties around the country.

But more should be made of this exhibition. It’s good, but it’s too sterile, too passive, too trapped in a gallery perspective. It needs bolder display. It should be buzzing with school groups. There should be children running around trying to answer quiz questions about how, where and what climate change will strike. It could be a focus for action.