CBC Quirks and Quarks: Canada in 2050. It’ll look a lot different - more fire, less ice, more drought, floods…and better wineries.

Published: November 26, 2007, 11:58 am

The Tracker hadn’t time for more than a few samples this morning on the climate in Canada in 2050. They came from a parade of scientists who talked with Bob McDonald and his crew at the CBC’s Quirks and Quarks weekend radio show. It’s a sizeable, one-topic broadcast. No part of Canadian life, one source says, will be the same as now. I’ve written some on the ongoing outbreak of mountain pine beetles that is reducing most of British Columbia’s interior lodgepole forests to fungus-stained dead wood. So I scrolled to that part of the streaming MP3 audio. BC’s roaring sawmills, making lumber before the trees rot on their roots, is just the start, it appears. (pic: red, dying lodgepoles in Canada, source here). It is chilling to hear the forecasts for a profound, warming-propelled transformation of far more of Canada’s forest including its boreal jackpine expanse. One fellow says BC should lose most of its glaciers, and water will be expensive,

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