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20260920 08:00 UTC · 01:01:03 · 453 transcript segments · GDELT Visual Explorer · plain-text transcript · Event Map

After lions kill their mother, two cheetah cubs are raised in captivity; now they have a chance to live wild, they just need to learn to hunt.

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00:00:29Hey, I'm Johanna Wagstaff, a meteorologist and part of the
00:00:31CBC News team covering stories on climate change. And we are
00:00:34starting to feel the impacts of those changes in our daily
00:00:37lives and see them in the world around us. In this episode,
00:00:40we'll help make sense of it all, both what's already happening
00:00:44and what could be coming in the future. Let's start by looking
00:00:47at the effects of rising temperatures.
00:07:32Just days before the Winter Olympics in Italy,
00:07:34organizers were quietly panicking because of this green
00:07:37slopes on the Dolomites, slopes that were supposed to
00:07:40host the best skiers and snowboarders. But then,
00:07:43right on cue, a series of storms moved
00:07:45through, blanketing the venues just in
00:07:48time. So officially, that crisis is over. But about
00:07:51two Empire State Buildings worth of snow are part of the
00:07:54backup plan. And this is how modern Winter Olympics operate
00:07:58now. Not will it snow, but will technology come
00:08:00through if it doesn't?
00:08:02Because Italy is not an outlier. In Beijing 2020, two,
00:08:05100% of the snow was artificial. And of course,
00:08:08in Vancouver 2010, snow was trucked in from the
00:08:10interior for the local mountains. At the time,
00:08:13the lack of snow felt like bad luck,
00:08:15but in the end it was more of a preview for winters to come,
00:08:19thanks to climate change. So what does that mean for the
00:08:22future of Winter Olympics? For places that have built
00:08:25their identities around winter, the International Ski and
00:08:28Snowboard Federation has floated the idea of rotating
00:08:32the games
00:08:33between a small number of quote UN quote climate stable venues.
00:08:36New research suggests that by the 20 fifties,
00:08:39more than 70% of past and potential Olympic sites won't
00:08:43be climate reliable. So does Whistler qualify? Well, for now,
00:08:47yes, but it will mean some changes.
00:08:49Whistler Blackcomb is still seen as safer than many
00:08:52European resorts because of its elevation and sheer scale. But
00:08:56even here the cracks are showing. Some are skiing on the
00:09:00Horseman Glacier was suspended indefinitely
00:09:03in 2025, and by mid century climate
00:09:05models suggest that Whistler base could see about half of
00:09:08its winter precipitation fall as rain. Keeping Whistler
00:09:12Olympics ready would mean pushing finishing lines higher
00:09:15up the mountain and leaning heavily on snow making. And the
00:09:19village won't exactly feel like winter Wonderland with mainly
00:09:22rain forecast at 600 meters 25 years on,
00:09:25because snow making only works when temperatures are at or
00:09:28just slightly above 0 and that window is shrinking by the 20
00:09:32fifties. The winter is
00:09:34they currently think of as bad are expected to become average
00:09:37lower elevation hills will have to adapt to year round resorts.
00:09:42The true winter experience moves higher,
00:09:44colder and farther inland. So Whistler and a few others like
00:09:48Calgary, Salt Lake City, UT, and Sapporo, Japan,
00:09:51may indeed be one of the last few places where Winter
00:09:55Olympics still depend on winter, not just engineering.
00:10:04Recent summers have been so hot in Japan,
00:10:07they've invented a new word to describe it. For heat that tops
00:10:1140°C, the new word is Coco shobi. It
00:10:14roughly translates to cruelly hot day. It's a move that makes
00:10:18sense if you know the language. Japan has spent centuries
00:10:22creating hundreds of nuanced words just for rain and
00:10:25blossoms, terms that often are tied to
00:10:28seasonal rituals and even the texture and feeling of a
00:10:32weather event like hanokage, the specific cool
00:10:35temperature felt when standing in the shadow of cherry
00:10:39blossoms. Or, she told shito, the soft, quiet,
00:10:42lingering drizzle that sounds like the word. But Coco shobi
00:10:46is different. It's a sobering, modern addition to the lexicon
00:10:51by the Japan Meteorological Agency. It reflect not just the
00:10:55temperature, but how the heat feels in their
00:10:58daily life, like exhausting, overwhelming or even dangerous.
00:11:02The word was chosen by the public via a national poll of
00:11:06nearly half a million people. The reason? It's top of mind?
00:11:102025 was the hottest summer in Japan since records began in
00:11:151898. In fact, more than 1/3 of all the 40°
00:11:18days ever recorded in the last 150 years have happened in just
00:11:22the last three years.
00:11:24The outlook for summer 2026 is also above normal. The IPCC and
00:11:28local meteorologists are warning that the combined
00:11:31effects of rising temps and humidity are increasingly
00:11:34posing a severe risk of mortality. They need people to
00:11:38take action. I think it's especially important for
00:11:41elderly, which would be one in three
00:11:43people over 65 years old in Japan,
00:11:45and they really need to take heed in terms of caring for
00:11:49their bodies and themselves. Parts of Canada can certainly
00:11:52relate to this. Think of the sweltering,
00:11:55heavy days in southern Ontario.
00:11:57In Quebec, where the humidity makes it
00:11:59nearly impossible for the body to cool itself through sweat.
00:12:03These are the most dangerous days of the year. In Japan,
00:12:07that humidity is relentless and months long,
00:12:10amplified by the heat island effect of these massive urban
00:12:14centres. Gradually, yearly, the temperature is rising up.
00:12:18So maybe it's better to name the extreme hot day. It's a
00:12:22it's kind of a warning. Japan is trying to ensure its
00:12:26citizens know exactly what they're up against.
00:12:29By the way, the word that came in second
00:12:32place in that poll? Chomo shobi, which means super,
00:12:35extremely hot day. But it seems extreme just doesn't cut it
00:12:38anymore.
00:14:53Welcome back. Our oceans and waterways are feeling the
00:14:56impacts of climate change. Let's look at what those
00:14:58changes could look like and the consequences they could have.
00:15:04Imagine sea levels were up here instead of down there. This
00:15:07isn't theoretical, it's happening. OK,
00:15:10so not in a couple years, but over a couple centuries.
00:15:14Which means now is exactly what we need to start planning. How
00:15:18we build our cities, how we adapt our coastlines,
00:15:21zoning laws, flood maps, sea walls,
00:15:24wetlands. This is an abstract. It's about staying ahead of the
00:15:28water. Because even if we cap warming at 1.5°C,
00:15:31the oceans aren't done rising.
00:15:33Scientists just rewound the numbers,
00:15:36drawing on ancient coral sediment, fossil shorelines,
00:15:39and found that the last time Earth was this warm, about 125,
00:15:43000 years ago, sea levels were four to 10
00:15:46meters higher. That's because ice takes time to melt,
00:15:49but once it starts, it's hard to stop. Greenland
00:15:52and Antarctica that ice won't collapse overnight,
00:15:55but once they go, they don't quit. It's like
00:15:58tipping a jug of water. You can't freeze it mid poor. Even
00:16:02conservative projections show a 1m
00:16:04sea level rise in 75 years, but it keeps going from there.
00:16:08Right now, about 230 million people live
00:16:11on land less than 1m above sea level,
00:16:13about 1 billion within 10 meters. That's one in eight
00:16:17people on Earth. So no, your entire city isn't going
00:16:21underwater tomorrow. But this is coming,
00:16:23and we've still got time to get ready.
00:19:57Vancouver is one of the wettest cities on earth. Yet when it
00:20:01comes to drinking water,
00:20:04there is a crisis on the horizon. And the proposed
00:20:07solutions are kind of wild. Like a giant straw pipes you
00:20:11can drive through. Maybe even a new source lake. Stick with me.
00:20:15Let's start by understanding the existing drinking water
00:20:18system. I'm standing in front of one of them. This is
00:20:22Capilano Lake, one of three reservoirs on the
00:20:25North Shore Mountains that catch the runoff from 60,
00:20:28000 hectares of protected land. That means no hiking,
00:20:31no camping, no human footprints. We lock
00:20:34down these watersheds a century
00:20:36ago to act as pristine catchment basins for Capilano,
00:20:39Seymour and Coquitlam reservoirs. These giant holdy
00:20:43lakes, if you will, provide the water to 3 million
00:20:47people. That's about half of BC's entire population. The
00:20:51genius of this system is the altitude.
00:20:56The mountains do the heavy lifting using gravity as the
00:21:00primary delivery method. So massive pumping stations and
00:21:03massive amounts of electricity are not needed,
00:21:06just pipes guiding the flow down to your glass. It's a
00:21:09perfect passive system for now. We're very lucky with the
00:21:13system we have. But the system has its limitations. And when
00:21:17the reservoirs are full and they're full and they need to
00:21:20last us throughout the summer, which brings us to conflict
00:21:24number one, climate change. This whole
00:21:26system works because the snow we get in the mountains
00:21:29in the winter slowly melts through the spring and summer,
00:21:33keeping our reservoirs full when demand is the highest.
00:21:36I've looked at the projections for Metro Vancouver snow. By
00:21:40the 20 fifties, the average winter snowpack is
00:21:43expected to decrease by almost 60%. By the twenty 80s,
00:21:46that number is closer to 80%. We're already losing winter
00:21:50snow as the season shifts, getting more of our snow as
00:21:54rain, and we're seeing glimpses of
00:21:56what that looks like when we get to the bottom of our lakes.
00:22:00Too early, Tighter restrictions.
00:22:032026 is the earliest. Metro Vancouver has introduced stage
00:22:072 water restrictions on record. Basically no lawn watering
00:22:11until the fall. And so we know we provide a billion liters in
00:22:15winter, so 1 billion liters. It's the
00:22:17size of BC Place. If you fill it up every day in winter,
00:22:21but in summer that increases by 50%.
00:22:24So how do we get more water when we need it?
00:22:27The first wild plan is the giant straw by the mid twenty
00:22:3030s, Metro Vancouver is launching a
00:22:33second water intake at Coquitlam Lake to double its
00:22:36water withdrawal. The water is already there,
00:22:39it's just physically out of reach of our current pipes.
00:22:42We're tunneling a brand new lower intake to grab that cold,
00:22:46high quality water from the depths. Think of it like
00:22:49sticking a longer straw in your bubble tea to get the last few
00:22:53curls at the bottom of the cup. So they currently
00:22:56provides drinking water to about 1/3 of the region. And
00:23:00with the upgrade, eventually it's going to be
00:23:03able to provide more than half of the region. It's a very Big
00:23:06Lake. It's also very deep. The deepest part is actually below
00:23:10sea level. But even if we have all the water we need,
00:23:13we have to move it. And we live in a major seismic zone
00:23:16conflict #2 our water has to travel under massive bodies of
00:23:20water like the Burrard Inlet to get to your tap. I've done a
00:23:23deep dive into the liquification hazard maps. And
00:23:26the big concern here is that during a large earthquake,
00:23:30the ground, especially near the riverbanks,
00:23:32turned to jello. So if a main pipe snaps 30 meters below the
00:23:36water, you can't just send a scuba
00:23:38diver down to patch it. We could be dry for weeks.
00:23:42About 75% of our primary pipes have been upgraded to seismic
00:23:45resilient joints designed to bend and stretch like this one
00:23:48rather than snap if the earth cracks,
00:23:50correct. This pipe here is 3.2 meters in diameter. So yes,
00:23:54you could drive a small car through there. It's challenging
00:23:57in the sense that, you know, we do have to make sure that
00:24:00the pipes are the right size, right material. And it's going
00:24:03to be able to withstand these large earthquakes that you know,
00:24:07we're one day you're going to see unfortunately, right?
00:24:10But engineering can't solve everything if our habits don't
00:24:13change. That
00:24:15leads us to conflict #3 rising demand. We're adding 35,
00:24:17000 new neighbors every year. Based on forecasted demand and
00:24:21population growth, the region will likely need
00:24:24additional water storage by the mid twenty 30s if relying
00:24:28solely on the current systems capabilities. But it turns out
00:24:32Vancouver also just straight up uses a lot of water. The
00:24:36Vancouver region are the highest per capita water users
00:24:39in in the country. So, you know, it's not a it's not a table we
00:24:43want to be first on, I think. So it's definitely a
00:24:47A2 pronged
00:24:48approach. It's let's all use less and let's plan for the
00:24:51second intake at Coquitlam so we can access more of the the
00:24:55high quality water source water that we have in this region.
00:24:59Even with the longer straw and the bendy pipes,
00:25:01the math still doesn't quite add up for the next century.
00:25:05Metro Vancouver is evaluating 7 mega projects to get us through
00:25:09to 2120. We're talking about entirely new source lakes
00:25:13outside our current map, like Harrison Lake or Pit Lake
00:25:16lakes, by the way, that haven't already been
00:25:19earmarked for BC Hydro use in the future. We're also talking about
00:25:23raising the Seymour Falls Dam by 53 meters. And these are
00:25:26engineering hurdles on unseated territories. Altering these
00:25:30waterways requires decades of engagement with local First
00:25:33Nations. Our 100 year survival equation is a race move. Water
00:25:37from mountains that are losing snow across an earthquake fault
00:25:40line to a sprawling city with a growing number of taps. The
00:25:44Metro Vancouver has planned for 100 years before,
00:25:47so they're betting billions that we can out engineer the clock.
00:25:58Coming up, we're taking a look at stories
00:26:00focused on climate change. Stay with us.
00:28:11And we're back. So how do these changing temperatures impact
00:28:14wildlife? Well, just like humans, animals,
00:28:16plants, insects are forced to adapt to
00:28:19our changing world. For some it means shrinking habitats,
00:28:22but for others new opportunities.
00:28:28A colony of Penguins on an Antarctic island,
00:28:30dramatically shifting their behaviour in the face of
00:28:33climate change. We don't know whether to be
00:28:36a happy or or very sad yet, but for now we're alarmed. The
00:28:40big change? The birds are breeding earlier,
00:28:43a shift that's happening at record speed. Ignacio Martinez
00:28:47led a decade long study on three species of Antarctic
00:28:51Penguins. The sweeping survey relied on time lapse cameras
00:28:55monitoring 37 colonies of Penguins in a region warming
00:28:59three times faster than the rest of the world. All three,
00:29:03Gentoo, Chinstrap and Adelie, moved up their breeding seasons.
00:29:07Gentoos had the biggest change 13 days earlier on average,
00:29:11and up to 24 days for some colonies. When we looked at the
00:29:15time series of 10 years one after the other,
00:29:18we realized like oh damn, this is the fastest change in
00:29:22any vertebrate ever.
00:29:24Shifting breeding patterns could help some species adapt
00:29:28to climate change and has been seen in other plants and
00:29:31animals, but it's not good news for all.
00:29:34And that could pit Penguin species against each other over
00:29:38scarce food and land. Like we only have one species. The
00:29:41chances that species survives is very scarce.
00:29:45Martinez says the findings suggest there could be winners
00:29:49and losers of climate change, but overall it paints A
00:29:52concerning picture for the future of Antarctic Penguins.
00:29:56In Ayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto.
00:30:01Scientists have confirmed something that shouldn't have
00:30:03happened. The first sighting of a mosquito in Iceland. The news
00:30:06sent a buzz around the world. It was a surprise because it
00:30:09was the only country in the world that was mosquito free.
00:30:13But the story isn't really about Iceland,
00:30:15it's about what it means for Canada. Canadian scientists are
00:30:18already modeling what our mosquito future might look like
00:30:22as the climate warms. There are roughly 80 different mosquito
00:30:25species in Canada. Some have been here for centuries and
00:30:28others are newcomers chasing the heat.
00:30:30But Canada's north is warming four times faster than the rest
00:30:34of the world, meaning some parts of the
00:30:37country are entering into the perfect breeding temperature
00:30:41range for mosquitoes. And many of the newcomers carry disease.
00:30:45It is Kulick PNS, which is the vector for West
00:30:48Nile virus, so it has spread geographically
00:30:50from the east of Canada all the way out to the West,
00:30:54most recently seeing it in Edmonton and in Calgary in 2022.
00:30:57These are, this is a species of mosquito
00:31:00that we have never seen previously
00:31:02in these parts of Canada. A species once limited by cold is
00:31:06now surviving coast to coast to coast. So you probably are
00:31:10aware that this is a mosquito that transmit diseases such as
00:31:14dengue, chikungunya virus and Zika
00:31:17virus. We've not only detected these mosquitoes in adult
00:31:21stages, but we've also detected them as
00:31:23larvae and its eggs. So knowing that they now have their full
00:31:28life cycles in Canada is, I guess some evidence that
00:31:31these mosquito populations
00:31:33have established. And so yes, the risk for increased mosquito
00:31:36borne disease is real, which means keeping track of
00:31:39these little suckers makes sense. But Canada doesn't have
00:31:43a national mosquito surveillance program. Each
00:31:45province runs its own, leaving gaps in the regions
00:31:48changing the fastest. But it's not all bad news. Citizens
00:31:51Science may be one of our best tools to track and make plans
00:31:55for this future. In fact, the first citizen science
00:31:58mosquito project led by the University of Windsor just
00:32:01wrapped up its inaugural season. The more we tracked them,
00:32:04the better chance we have to stay one step ahead.
00:36:30So what changes can we make, and what changes will we be
00:36:32forced to make as we adapt? Shifting our diets could be key.
00:36:36What we eat and what we grow will change as we face warmer
00:36:40temperatures, attempt to feed more people and
00:36:42try to cut down on emissions.
00:36:47In a screenhouse at the Kentfield Research and
00:36:51Development Centre, Beatrice Amiot is surrounded by
00:36:54strawberry plants. To most people,
00:36:57they probably look similar, but a closer look shows there's
00:37:01lots of variety, 160 varieties to be exact.
00:37:04There are tall and short plants, large and small leaves and
00:37:09different hues of green. Amiot is part of a team across Canada
00:37:13searching for varieties that can cope with our changing
00:37:17climate. Something that can withstand A drier year of colder year,
00:37:21a wetter year, and still have good
00:37:23productivity under all those conditions is more likely to be
00:37:27resilient to climate change.
00:37:28Amyot and researchers in other parts of Canada will plant some
00:37:33of these strawberries, raspberries and blueberries and
00:37:37then share data on how they fare. Growing conditions will
00:37:41be a key part of that data. How well they thrive in drought,
00:37:45heat, excessive rain, or whatever else nature throws
00:37:49their way. So, for example, drought is what we've
00:37:52encountered here of Nova Scotia. Other parts of Canada have
00:37:55experienced heat Dome conditions and winter freeze
00:37:58snaps that have been really detrimental to Berry crops. So
00:38:01those extreme conditions are something that some species and
00:38:05some varieties within species are more tolerant to than
00:38:08others.
00:38:10Phillip Caddy knows that unpredictability all too well.
00:38:13At his farm in Lakeville, he produces strawberry plants
00:38:17to sell to growers in the US and Canada.
00:38:20We've been for the last 10 years starting to see the
00:38:24effects of climate change. We've had some of the wettest
00:38:27years, some of the driest years, colder temperatures in the
00:38:31winter, just drastic fluctuation in
00:38:34temperatures and and moisture. Caddy works with the Kentfield
00:38:37Research Centre to field test their varieties. It's up to him
00:38:41to find the right ones to send to his customers. And what
00:38:45works for one customer in Florida may not work for
00:38:49another in Saskatchewan with its harsh winters.
00:38:52Back at the research station, the final product, the berries,
00:38:56are also put under a microscope to evaluate properties like
00:39:01colour, gloss and firmness. But the
00:39:04process of developing the perfect varieties and the
00:39:07perfect berries isn't fast. Amyot says it can take 10 to 15
00:39:12years to bring a new strawberry variety to the commercial
00:39:16market, and even more for other berries.
00:39:19Frances Willick, CBC News, Kentville.
00:47:43How possible is it to cut down our CO2 emissions and what are
00:47:46the alternatives? Let's take a look at the
00:47:48problem and some potential solutions.
00:47:52The end of fossil fuels in the near future? Well,
00:47:54that's either wildly optimistic or completely unrealistic,
00:47:58depending on who you ask. But climate science has a very
00:48:01specific answer to this question. Not what we hope for
00:48:04or what governments promise, but what the physics actually
00:48:08allows. Let's get into it. OK, reality check. First of all,
00:48:11when climate scientists talk about the near future,
00:48:14they're almost never talking about 0 fossil fuels. They're
00:48:18talking about net zero, a world where the carbon we
00:48:21emit is balanced by the carbon we remove. More on that in a
00:48:25moment. What the IPCC models look at. That's the latest
00:48:28agreed upon research from climate scientists around the
00:48:31world. Is net 0 emissions a reality where the world
00:48:34theoretically has time to adapt? So why are we trying to stop
00:48:37the burning of fossil fuels anyway? Or remember,
00:48:40fossil fuels are the main driving force behind rising
00:48:43temperatures that threaten to push ecosystems past a point of
00:48:47no return, irreversible damage. Climate
00:48:49science has found that range to be between 1.5 and two degrees
00:48:53of warming. To me,
00:48:55what I find most, you know, most important
00:48:59is to understand just how much every fraction of a degree
00:49:03matters. So how completely do we need to move away from
00:49:06fossil fuels? The good news is that in every
00:49:09IPCC scenario that limits warming to that tolerable level,
00:49:12fossil fuels don't vanish completely. But fossil fuel use
00:49:16should be peaking now or have already peaked. That's right.
00:49:19We can't burn anymore than we're burning right now. We're
00:49:23at the Max. We already have more coal,
00:49:25oil and gas projects than we can afford to burn. Remember,
00:49:28this is from the perspective
00:49:30of climate science. There are other strongly held views
00:49:34rooted in economics and industry that have reasons to
00:49:37continue to extract fossil fuels. But according to the
00:49:40climate science, by mid century, only 24 years from now,
00:49:44global carbon dioxide emissions need to hit net zero. What
00:49:47we're talking about is reaching a balance where we're putting
00:49:51into, where what we're putting into
00:49:53the atmosphere equals what we're taking out. That's what
00:49:57will allow temperatures to stabilize,
00:49:59and carbon capture technology
00:50:01can pull carbon out of the air or bury it underground,
00:50:04technology that may also help us pull our temps back if we do
00:50:08overshoot our limits. Carbon capture probably warrants its
00:50:12own explainer video, so stay tuned. But the answer
00:50:15to the question will we ever be off fossil fuels is probably
00:50:19not entirely anytime soon. So how do we get to a
00:50:22scientifically acceptable level of fossil fuel use?
00:50:25The IPCC runs hundreds of computer model futures,
00:50:28testing different ways the world could cut emissions,
00:50:31measuring how the climate responds. And in everyone where
00:50:35we hit our mark, it's not because of a single
00:50:37breakthrough technology, but because of scale. We're
00:50:40talking more wind, more solar, more electrification,
00:50:43and much less burning. Let's get specific about that last
00:50:46point. To stay below that critical threshold of warming,
00:50:50the science shows that roughly 80% of known coal reserves,
00:50:53about half of gas, and about 1/3 of oil must
00:50:56remain unburned. And there's a problem with that. When
00:50:59scientists compare existing fossil fuel infrastructure to
00:51:02the remaining carbon budget, well, the math doesn't math. The
00:51:05existing infrastructure indicates far more fossil fuel
00:51:08burning ahead. Add to that the fact that energy demand just
00:51:12keeps growing. I mean, none of this is easy. It means
00:51:15rebuilding energy systems faster than at any point in
00:51:18history. And yes, it likely means carbon capture
00:51:20technology will be needed. And despite the fact that the world
00:51:24has already invested some $2 trillion in renewable energy,
00:51:27there will be political and economic ramifications of
00:51:30suggesting we leave $6 trillion worth of business in the ground.
00:51:34Climate change has a direct cost on our economies,
00:51:38so it's not the difference between taking action and not
00:51:42taking action. It is actually also the difference between the
00:51:47damages that climate change will cause.
00:51:51So here's the uncomfortable conclusion. The science says a
00:51:55net zero future soon is not only necessary,
00:51:57but doable. What it doesn't say is whether we as humans take
00:52:01that path or not.
01:00:17Thanks for joining us. You can find more news on
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