Globe Mail today
"Canadians have started to pay more for groceries as severe drought drives up prices for agricultural commodities, and experts say more price hikes are likely this fall.
At The Bon Ton Meat Market in Calgary, owner Greg Keller said the spike in retail beef prices over the last two months has been “unbelievable.”
“Some items have increased 10 to 15 per cent, some items have increased 20 per cent,” Keller said. “I’ve never seen such volatile markets, and I’ve been doing this a long time.”
but much more disturbing:
A summer of unprecedented heat has not been kind to the iconic ice in the Canadian Rockies. According to researchers, glaciers are melting at a rate never seen before.
“It’s horrific to see this almost unrecognizable from one year ago, two years ago, let alone 10-20 years ago,“ said Dr. John Pomeroy, a hydrologist and director of Global Water Futures.
“Glacial melt contributes water when irrigators need it most on the Prairies, and irrigators and people in the agricultural sector there depends on mountain water,” said Dr. Robert Sanford, chair of water and climate security at United National University Institute for water.
“It’s not impossible to imagine if we are losing ice at the rate that Peyto Glacier is losing ice this year, our rivers would run dry in August and September,” conservationist Dr. Harvey Locke said.
“This is grievously serious for the future of life on the Prairies. The world as we know it is being transformed as we watch.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/8154343/canadian-rockies-glacier-melt/
yet nobody seems to want to do much.