As The Guardian notes, “climate change” can sound passive or inevitable, while “climate emergency” calls for urgency and accountability. As George Orwell wrote, “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Clear, powerful language matters.

"𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢" In 2024, the Canadian wildfire smoke reached 🇺🇸 The United States 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇪🇺 Europe #ClimateAction #AirPollution

We know, we know...we’ve been quiet. Turns out, building wildfire risk tools keeps you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 busy. But hey, we’re back with something big: our new 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿. Drop your address in and get an instant risk rating. Leave a comment to try it out 👇🏽

I've been tinkering on a side project. Mainly learning about data engineering but also exploring ideas about #weather #dataviz. What I have so far: a serverless (static in fact) interactive web app showing hourly temperature graph for every station in Canada for all recorded history. #wx