https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles daily 0.75 2022-03-11 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/wildfires-in-british-columbia monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626818654922-XOBD6NWR8ALXGH2B9A7P/4.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819720717-F63IPF00VQWT1NQK81TV/10.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819605805-WR6DT35O9ZGNBO63RJPI/7.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819637356-4O53ZIC69ZG3GF85EASF/9.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819619914-1NNJOD170U6RS4CPZCUY/8.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819589525-848DY77VMR7U2F08PG1S/6.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626818615056-VNCJ6R12DPQ4IW8GE0C0/2.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626818636230-LEBEAVNMXJSPMYSUVEFB/3.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819573051-JT7GK1B1FE9X3DG3O2AL/5.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626819745909-U2B6UOD9D7SZ14CXAJFD/1.png Articles - Wildfires in British Columbia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/high-impact-actions-for-individuals-to-mitigate-climate-change monthly 0.5 2021-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626067784740-6KQ9VYV73P413L2S2GEA/Population_emissions.png Articles - High impact actions for individuals to mitigate climate change - Make it stand out Figure 1: World population by income and share of emissions. Figure and data taken from Oxfam. Data is for 2015, the richest 10% now account for 52% of emissions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626068122097-J1T4630U7TFJ2ZC19237/EV_vs_ICE_emissions.png Articles - High impact actions for individuals to mitigate climate change - Make it stand out Figure 3: comparison of cumulative lifetime emissions for mid sized passenger vehicles. ICE annual emissions are based on data from the U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center, EV annual emissions are based on the average US grid energy mix: 60% fossil fuels, 20% nuclear, and 20% renewables (Electricity generation, capacity, and sales in the United States - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)). Data taken from Engineering Explained’s consolidation of studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626068536011-TUC3FKQ6HQQUKZQHZ4UY/unsplash-image-7nrsVjvALnA.jpg Articles - High impact actions for individuals to mitigate climate change - Make it stand out At Terra Spheres we believe in thorough research with references to reputable sources. Our mission is to make the science behind climate change and sustainability more relatable, accessible, and informative. If you are a science nerd, research buff, or fact checker click through on the links/references provided and if not just skip over them and enjoy the article! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1626068153337-RRPYNWG275WBW2T464CU/FlightTest.png Articles - High impact actions for individuals to mitigate climate change - Make it stand out Figure 4: Roundtrip flight emissions from Vancouver. Assuming a conservative average emissions of 0.12 kg CO2e emissions per passenger km (this is an underestimate for short range flight emissions) with flight distances taken from Google Maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/d41ffb69-4054-4a2c-8fa2-d5351b3d19b0/Actions+and+reductions2.png Articles - High impact actions for individuals to mitigate climate change - Make it stand out Figure 2: High impact actions to reduce annual individual emissions. Taken from (3). https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/solving-climate-change-simplified monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1618855075142-IJHTYJ5ZEBTUZUFAD6EO/TerraSpheresInfographicV3.0.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: Simplified https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/how-to-fight-climate-change monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1616536762647-EGY8GIY114P8JJKC2UKZ/life-expectancy.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1616536757378-M2MHM0K7JR3NITCCE47N/world-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1616613191053-O53PM8KHCNOXFHL4ZZB9/CarbonPricing.JPG Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective Figure 5 : Globally implemented national and sub-national carbon price initiatives Taken from reference 8. The current level of BC’s tax ($40/tonne) adds about 8 cents per liter of gasoline at the pump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1617042812466-HXSG9H8HS780RA6KLM7W/LCOECAD.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective Figure 4 : Levelized cost of energy (lifetime cost per unit of energy) comparison for wind and solar vs LNG peaking and combined cycle. Data taken from Lazard’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1616605211675-RI3XUDCPD4I25JKHRW5R/NorthAmericanGrid.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective Figure 6 : Major North American electrical grids. The Western Interconnection provides a vast customer base for BC’s reliable and dispatchable electricity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1616535977330-FYVKQW8LCKIO04ATELE4/unsplash-image-NeiE4RO4g8Q.jpg Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective At Terra Spheres we believe in thorough research with references to reputable sources. Our mission is to make the science behind climate change and sustainability more relatable, accessible, and informative. If you are a science nerd, research buff, or fact checker click through on the links provided and if not just skip over them and enjoy the article! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1617042950574-3OVARZ7BGZ6H3FJ10LBC/GlobalEmissionsBySector.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective Figure 2 : Sector by sector breakdown of the annual 51 billion tonnes of global CO₂e emissions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1617042900262-9TV9O3XIOERHNXBCI11E/BCEmissionsBySector.png Articles - Solving Climate Change: A British Columbia Perspective Figure 3 : By sector breakdown of BC’s 2018 emissions. Data taken from the Provincial greenhouse gas emissions inventory. https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/climate-and-weather-in-bc monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612308464573-BU6U2WCZP6QE931F2YUW/Windy+image+of+storm.jpg Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 2: Satellite composite image of two extra-tropical cyclones in the North Pacific with the first beginning to make landfall on the BC coast on January 10th 2021. Check out Windy for excellent visualizations of these systems forming in the North Pacific and travelling towards BC next time you see prolonged periods of rain in the forecast! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612308509457-062423PRCBZJYJ8HFGFO/MAP_BC2010.png Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 4: Distribution of mean annual precipitation in BC. Data taken from Climate BC and processed using QGIS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612559118533-WA9IOSTS0PVOK4NMFW75/Distribution_synoptic_scale.JPG Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 5: Average annual frequencies of synoptic scale types in British Columbia. Taken from reference 5. See reference 5 for more in depth discussion and analysis of these synoptic types and the distribution of high and low pressure systems off the coast of and over BC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612308435846-SFR07641BCZX08ZMZZQK/Surface_stormAnalysis.png Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 3: Meteorological surface analysis of the same two storms. The first storm made landfall on January 10th bringing a period of heavy rain and winds to the south coast of BC over the following three days. The Victoria airport received 38 mm of precipitation and experienced wind gusts of 94 km/h, the Vancouver airport received 45 mm of precipitation and gusts of 91 km/h, and the North Shore received 60+ mm! Image source for Figures 2 & 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612461847437-CSAIAJZGJV6V575D5BL1/image-asset.jpeg Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future At Terra Spheres we believe in thorough research with references to reputable sources. Our mission is to make the science behind climate change and sustainability more relatable, accessible, and informative. If you are a science nerd, research buff, or fact checker click through on the links provided and if not just skip over them and enjoy the article! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612562414426-ODB1HWZXADN9TIBSD5KD/RCP_scenarios.png Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 8: RCP scenarios and projected warming over the next century. Source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612477089584-VAZLMCZ76BB17UZUHAQB/Idealized+Global+Circulation.jpg Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 1: Idealized and actual Earth air waves and circulation cells. The net movement of energy is from the equator (where there is an energy surplus) to the poles (energy deficit) with the Coriolis effect determining the direction of the Trade Winds and Westerlies in each hemisphere. Image source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612478420031-BYFUKWWX3XI7J4E47KI9/BC+Biogeoclimatic+zones.jpg Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 7: The distribution of biogeoclimatic zones in BC based on mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, and the dominant vegetation species. Taken from reference 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1612308554200-Q5FXZNFJK6PWOOQYNRYK/MAT_BC2010.png Articles - Climate and Weather in British Columbia: Past, Present, and Future Figure 6: Distribution of mean annual temperature in BC. Data taken from Climate BC and processed in QGIS. https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles/climate-change-how-and-why monthly 0.5 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1604444294456-4PTE5S47XLH45PACNJ1U/image.jpg Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? At Terra Spheres we believe in thorough research with references to reputable sources. Our mission is to make the science behind climate change and sustainability more relatable, accessible, and informative. If you are a science nerd, research buff, or fact checker click through on the links provided and if not just skip over them and enjoy the article! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1604009120224-KRY23CLKX112G21CMJDP/Milankovitch2.jpg Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? Figure 4: The Milankovitch cycles. Taken from: Kump, L. R., Kasting, J. F., & Crane, R. G. (2009). The Earth System (3rd edition). Upper Saddle River: Pearson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1603938292440-SHPILOMGSGJRZZT9MK9H/Global%2BMean%2BTemperature%2BAnomaly.jpg Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? Figure 1: Global mean temperature change relative to the 1951-1980 average. LSAT= Land Surface Air Temperature and SST= Sea Surface Temperature. The grey shading represents the total (LSAT and SST) annual uncertainty at a 95% confidence interval and the red shows average temperature change. Although temperature measurements began in 1659, it was not until 1850 that a truly global temperature measuring network had been developed, and thus ‘on record’ refers to 1880 onwards. Retrieved from: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1604009475582-O4YIMV147QO9CNFSVLVN/AnnualGHG.png Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? Figure 4: Pre-1978 changes in the CO₂-equivalent abundance and AGGI based on the ongoing measurements of all greenhouse gases reported here, measurements of CO₂ going back to the 1950s from C.D. Keeling [Keeling et al., 1958], and atmospheric changes derived from air trapped in ice and snow above glaciers [Machida et al., 1995, Battle et al., 1996, Etheridge, et al., 1996; Butler, et al., 1999]. Equivalent CO₂ atmospheric amounts (in ppm) are derived with the relationship between CO₂ concentrations and radiative forcing from all long-lived greenhouse gases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1604008717890-LCTIG3A7MDCJN86RW8DA/NASA_ER_Sun.jpg Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? Figure 2: The electromagnetic spectrum and atmospheric windows (measure of opacity of the atmosphere at given wavelengths). Retrieved from: https://science.nasa.gov/ems/01_intro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1604008781425-JGOIJM2XX27HXXMBSZJ3/TvsTSI.png Articles - Climate Change: How and Why? Figure 3: Annual global temperature change (thin light red) with 11 year moving average of temperature (thick dark red). Temperature from NASA GISS. Annual Total Solar Irradiance (TSI, thin light blue) with an 11 year moving average of TSI (thick dark blue). TSI from 1880 to 1978 from Krivova et al 2007. TSI from 1979 to 2015 from the World Radiation Center. https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos daily 0.75 2024-08-08 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/jqr2n9oxf0dhi2ajywz33rm323epnw monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/0zbr757eydyijqj8bkuyhnnclx9b2p monthly 0.5 2024-02-01 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-56 monthly 0.5 2024-01-25 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-55 monthly 0.5 2024-01-18 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-53-1 monthly 0.5 2023-04-15 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-53 monthly 0.5 2023-03-23 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-52 monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-51 monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-50 monthly 0.5 2022-12-14 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-49 monthly 0.5 2022-12-08 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-48 monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-47 monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-46 monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-45 monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-44 monthly 0.5 2022-11-02 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-43 monthly 0.5 2022-10-19 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-42 monthly 0.5 2022-06-08 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-41 monthly 0.5 2022-04-07 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-40 monthly 0.5 2022-03-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-39-1 monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-39 monthly 0.5 2022-02-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-37 monthly 0.5 2022-02-10 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-36 monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-35 monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-34 monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-33 monthly 0.5 2022-01-06 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-32 monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-31 monthly 0.5 2021-12-02 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-30 monthly 0.5 2021-11-25 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-29 monthly 0.5 2021-11-18 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-28 monthly 0.5 2021-11-10 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-27-1 monthly 0.5 2021-11-04 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-27 monthly 0.5 2021-10-27 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-25 monthly 0.5 2021-10-20 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-24 monthly 0.5 2021-10-13 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-23 monthly 0.5 2021-10-06 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-22 monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-21 monthly 0.5 2021-09-22 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/e5aw3zqah5ufqfoz177jyt4epb6qbu monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-19 monthly 0.5 2021-09-08 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-18 monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-17 monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-16 monthly 0.5 2021-08-19 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-15 monthly 0.5 2021-08-11 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-14 monthly 0.5 2021-08-05 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-13 monthly 0.5 2021-07-22 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-12 monthly 0.5 2021-07-14 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-11 monthly 0.5 2021-07-07 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-10 monthly 0.5 2021-06-30 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-9 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-8 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-7 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-6 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-5 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-4 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-3 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-2 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/videos/watch-it-wednesday-1 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles-cam1 daily 0.75 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles-cam1/blog-post-title-four-cwy69 monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles-cam1/blog-post-title-three-dhh5c monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles-cam1/blog-post-title-two-emst4 monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://www.terraspheres.ca/articles-cam1/blog-post-title-one-nrb2k monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1624497540991-JQ4GYPIDOAYULLV3PJ5K/image001.png Articles (Cam1) - Solving Climate Change: Simplified - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.terraspheres.ca/home daily 1.0 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1624481745283-ZR0OII7EXPJ7BQIUC5GM/TS_Image_01.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f99b3e3d3147674753ffe65/1624481790692-GKP76Q1UU6ZX6FQ0LD9A/TS_Image_02.png Home https://www.terraspheres.ca/what-we-do daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://www.terraspheres.ca/what-we-do-1 daily 0.75 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/contact daily 0.75 2021-06-24 https://www.terraspheres.ca/take-action daily 0.75 2020-10-29