Forgive the blatently obvious plug, but I thought this was noteworthy.

I noticed tonight, while in my Regina hotel room (see pics I shot of the local cemetery), that The National was on-location in my hometown of Delta B.C. for the first in its series on global warming climate change.

It’s nice to see a week-long focus on the topic where they visit the actual locations that are having an impact (negatively or positively) on the issue.

Here’s what else is coming up this week on the topic:

• On Tuesday, The National visits the U.K. to report on how the Thames Barrier is letting the water in and what Londoners are doing to keep their city dry. The citizens of Happisburgh are fighting their government’s claims that there is nothing to be done to keep their hometown from sliding into the North Sea. In Northern Kenya, nomadic cattle herders are turning to farming due to the drought killing off their cattle. How are they preserving the rains when they finally come?
• Wednesday, April 4 takes viewers to the cultural centre of the ancient world where the Canadian International Development Agency is undertaking a project to convert dirty factories in an effort to produce cleaner and greener fuel in Cairo. The Egyptians also look to Israel for advice on stopping the sands from spreading.
• Holland is the land famous for building dikes and reclaiming land, but it is subject to devastating and deadly floods. On Thursday, April 5, The National looks to the past to see what Holland may be facing in the future in their efforts to cope with persistent flooding. Peru’s Andes region is one of the most vulnerable and fragile parts of the world for climate change, as a fifth of the glaciers have melted and there’s already a shortage of water. How are the farmers living near the roof of the world coping?

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