Post #4112280
2026-07-26 12:34 UTC
imagine **55-60** days/year with temperatures above 30C. (current average: 14 days/year.) that's what climate change will likely bring to southern Ontario by 2080.
current tree canopy favours wealthy areas. so planting should be focused in neighbourhoods with few trees.
while we're at it: replace that awful Astral street furniture with actual shade at public transit stops.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-hotter-future-trees-9.7282570
#ClimateEmergency #UrbanPlanning #ToPoli
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@NMBA@mstdn.ca 2026-07-26 12:56
@adub@beige.party Lots of tree damage again last night for Edmonton city workers (likely getting extra pay for having to work through the night). Climate inaction has turned the big old trees into a tax increase because the multi-annnual drought weakened and killed the big trees followed by the endless storms now ripping them apart. There's appears to be an ever increasing urban budget needed for tree maintenance, and any new trees planted will need to be much more resilient to the new climate than the elms and oaks that were planted for shade a century ago.
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@Pinchy63@ottawa.place 2026-07-26 12:50
@adub@beige.party I’m planting two trees along my driveway this year for this very reason.