YOU’RE INVITED to Hamilton’s Inaugural Climate Forum! Keynote Ralph Torrie - Thinking Globally, Acting Locally – The Climate Crisis and Our Energy Future.

Wed Oct 29, 2025
Doors Open - 4:30 PM
Program Begins - 5:00 PM
David Braley Health Sciences Centre

RSVP required: climatechange@hamilton

September harvest!

Lots of discouraging and frightening news today….

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

“We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hmmmm…. Not sure how I feel about this fortune….

Setting up for the last day of Dundas Cactus Fest! We’re here at the City of Hamilton Environmental Services booth with climate action, tree, biodiversity info! Stop by and say ‘hello’!

We’re now into an extended heat warning! We’ve had 21 days of extreme heat this year so far! Stay cool & hydrated & check in on family, friends & neighbours. Extreme heat can be deadly!

This is an important next step with our community-wide climate action efforts. Now more than ever, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts we’re already experiencing (like the extended extreme heat alert we’re in right now). Climate action enhances QOL & local economy.

Lots of interacting issues on the front page of today’s Spec….

Grow it and they will come!!

www.canada.ca/en.html

Yet another heat warning for Hamilton and the weather forecasters are predicting it could stick around till Thurs next week. Please stay safe, cool and hydrated & check in on family, friends & neighbours!

The City’s Medical Officer of Health has issued a Heat Warning starting SAT JULY 5. Please stay safe, cool & hydrated & check in on others around you to make sure they’re ok too! Check out the City’s tips for keeping cool via link below

This is a climate adaptation challenge- addressing the reality of increasing temperatures. But we need to do this in a low carbon, climate resilient way!

**The smoke from wildfires has been pushed down low and is impacting air quality in Hamilton today (Fri June 6)! Be careful out there everyone! airqualityontario.com/aqhi/

Great Bike Day in Hamilton today! @cityofhamilton.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream 100 Hours to Save America’s Forecasts, Weather and Climate Livestream Part 9

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58F...

Here’s my latest addition- a beautiful little sugar maple!

It’s not too late!! Get a native tree or shrub and plant it in your yard! Do your part to grow the urban forest canopy, fight climate change, improve local air quality, create more habitat for wildlife, the list goes on and on!

Valencia Street piled with cars strewn everywhere after historic flooding.

Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”

Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.

They’re not the “new normal.

It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.

Don’t forget Valencia, Spain.

Even the rain can’t keep Hamiltonians from the City’s Annual Tree Giveaway! People were out at Mohawk College first thing this morning to pick up their pre-ordered native tree or bush.

It’s not too late - you can still request a tree here: www.hamilton.ca/home-neighbo...

Job ID #31010: Project Manager, Neighbourhood Climate Change Initiatives Contribute to the City of Hamilton, one of Canada’s largest cities - home to a diverse and strong economy, an active and inclusive community, a robust cultural and dining scene, hundreds of kilometers...

GREEN JOB ALERT! Project Manager Position with the City of Hamilton’s Office Of Climate Change Initiatives!! We’re looking for a PM to help with Neighbourhood Climate Change Initiatives.

cityofhamilton.bamboohr.com/careers/1094

‘Isn’t every day Earth Day? We can’t survive without the resources this planet provides.’ I really appreciate this sentiment from @KHayhoe - see more via link below!

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Elbows Up For Climate Elected local leaders from across Canada are uniting to say Elbows Up for Climate. This is the moment to protect our country from the dual threats of tariffs and climate change.

Glad to see these links being drawn to the situation we’re in right now! elbowsupforclimate.ca

So happy to be on my bike again for the morning commute! And good active transportation infrastructure like Hamilton’s Keddy Trail make all the difference in the world!!

Want to know what you can do to take climate action, help clear the air, increase quality of life in our city? Plant a tree in your yard! Order one today from the City of Hamilton ANNUAL TREE GIVEAWAY!! 🌲 🌳 🌲 🌳

Column in today’s Spec from Dr Henry Giroux - McMaster University Chaired Professorship for Scholarship in the Public Interest

Looking forward to this event next week!

More info here: www.hamilton.ca/things-do/fe...

‘Weather whiplash" is a colloquial phrase for describing an extreme event that includes shifts between two opposing weather conditions.’ This is climate change! See research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/5....