Federal Election 2019

In the late 1950's and early 1960's, 79% of us voted.

In the last federal election, only 68% of us voted. 

Your future is in the count; get out and vote.​

HISTORICAL VOTING DATA 1867-2015
UPDATE OCT 22: Only 66% of us voted

The chart below comes from Environmental Defence, a leading Canadian advocacy organization "that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities."

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Their October 10, 2019 piece "The oil lobby is lying. Canadian oil isn’t clean oil." documents that "46 countries produced oil with a lower per barrel carbon footprint than Canada. Only three countries were worse: Algeria, Venezuela, and Cameroon. We’re 47th out of 50 countries."
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As the report concludes in part:

​"Governments must stop spending financial and political capital to further the interests of one industry whose aspirations will literally devastate the planet, at the expense of all of us."

NEWS ITEMS:

• OCT 2019 CNN: Russian scientists say they've found the highest-ever 'flares' of methane in Arctic waters
• OCT 2019 TruthOut.org: ExxonMobil Is Still Bankrolling Climate Science Deniers
• SEP 2019 CBC News: How 'organized climate change denial' shapes public opinion on global warming.
• FEB 2019 University of Washington: Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent
• JAN 2019 Scientific American: Greenland Has Yet Another Methane Leak
• JUN 2018 American Geophysical Union: Very Strong Atmospheric Methane Growth in the 4 Years 2014–2017
• SEP 2016 Engineering & Technology Magazine: Arctic methane levels reach new heights.

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Methane: The Arctic's hidden climate threat.
Natalia Shakhova's latest paper. Jun 23, 2019​

​Even with existing levels of warming and melting of the Arctic region, submarine methane releases linked to clathrate breakdown have been discovered,[32] and demonstrated to be leaking into the atmosphere.[5][34][35][36] A 2011 Russian survey off the East Siberian coast found plumes wider than one kilometer releasing methane directly into the atmosphere.[32] According to monitoring carried out in 2003/2004 by Shakhova et al., the surface layer of shelf water in the East Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea was supersaturated up to 2500% relative to then present average atmospheric methane content of 1.85 ppm. Anomalously high concentrations (up to 154 nM or 4400% supersaturation) of dissolved methane in the bottom layer of shelf water suggest that the bottom layer is somehow affected by near-bottom sources. Considering the possible formation mechanisms of such plumes, their studies indicated thermoabrasion and the effects of shallow gas or gas hydrates release.[4] Wikipedia Arctic Methane Emissions Page

New Arctic lakes could soon be a major source of atmospheric methane. August 20, 2018​

For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the result of microbes waking up and digesting once-frozen organic materials. A new NASA-funded study focuses on a mechanism that could accelerate the release of this atmospheric carbon, the result of thermokarst lakes. These lakes form when thawing permafrost causes the ground to slump, creating a depression that collects rain and snowmelt and perpetuates a cycle of further permafrost thaw. NASA August 2018