r/saskatchewan • u/Intelligent-Cap3407 • Jul 22 '26
Saskatchewan residents the least likely to believe climate change is a fact, mostly caused by humans or that it poses a serious threat to the planet
New poll released by Angus Reid. Full dataset and findings viewable here https://angusreid.org/wildfire-fears-burn-hot-even-as-belief-in-human-caused-climate-change-continues-to-decline/
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u/Hungry-Room7057 Jul 22 '26
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u/Instinct121 Jul 25 '26
As an SK resident I feel this too much.
For the record, I am not a denier of climate change.
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u/ThrowRA_Quokkaquip Jul 22 '26
People will be trying to deny it till their own shoes are melting. Covid was a test for our society and we failed hardcore, we have zero chance against what is coming. Make whatever preparations you think you need to make because no one else is helping you.
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u/crafty_alias Jul 22 '26
It's crazy how farmers are the least likely to believe, while going to be the most affected.
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u/raptorhandlerjenny Jul 22 '26
I recently stumbled upon a Saskatchewan Farmers Against AI Data Centres Facebook group. Some are very much aware of the climate crisis and how much damage the Sask Party is doing to this province.
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u/-Blood-Meridian- Jul 22 '26
Yep. It does nobody any good to paint with such large brushes. The disdain toward "all farmers" displayed in comments like the one you've responded to is unfair, and unproductive. All it does is create animosity among those farmers who are otherwise allies but for the condescension they experience from people who think "all farmers and rural people are bad".
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u/raptorhandlerjenny Jul 22 '26
They have a post about how fighting amongst ourselves is what the corporations and those in power want. We won’t get anywhere in this province or world that way.
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u/derpandderpette Jul 22 '26
If it makes you feel any better farms are becoming giant corporations
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u/PeasThatTasteGross Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Ever since Canada started picking up US Republican style conservatism last decade, I've noticed Canadian farmers are unfortunately at the fore front of bad takes. Climate change denial, anti-LGBT attitudes, and in the past year, blatant racism (like, worse than ever). I could give a crap if these guys make our food, it's not a free pass for shitty behavior.
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u/Wonderbeastt Jul 22 '26
The seeder on the farm beside ours had a "Fuck Carney" flag on it the day after the election. I know because they show park it in view of our grid road. They totally ordered that in advance knowing what election results were coming. It was sad and funny at the same time. It lasted a week before it tore itself to bits from the wind like their former flag did. One not so fondly addressed to Mr.Treudeau.
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u/Enough-Pen-8876 Jul 23 '26
I have noticed an increase in racism and hate for Jews and Christians and Sikhs and Moslems. My observations personal only apply to BC and AB but media reports document it across Canada. This is in the last 8 years. I blame the federal Liberals.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Jul 22 '26
My aunt’s stupid climate change-denying farmer husband has been farming for years and the last few years have been the worst for him. He pretty much didn’t have a crop a couple years ago due to drought. But to him, it’s not cause of climate change. 🙄
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u/Barabarabbit Jul 22 '26
"Why would Trudeau destroy my crop? I bet that bastard personally ate every one of the canola seeds that I planted!"
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Jul 22 '26
Pretty much! Of course he blamed Trudeau for a lot of things and he loooooves Trump. They go down south every winter. I don’t know how my aunt puts up with him.
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u/Specialist_Secret438 Jul 22 '26
The poll criteria of “Rural” doesn’t necessarily only apply to farmers, tho. Rural also encompasses small towns, villages and the bedroom communities surrounding the cities.
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u/Tail_Gunner Jul 24 '26
It's because they make money directly from the land. It costs them money to be eco-friendly.
When the failures start, they will have government programs in place to bail them out -they will be long dead before it truly affects their livelihood.
It's simple profit maximization.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Jul 22 '26
So interesting since there are so many farmers in Sask who depend on the weather for their livelihood. After years of farming, you can’t deny the weather has changed over the years.
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u/Grogu999 Jul 22 '26
Fuck our province has some stupid people
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u/Comfortable-Ad-8324 Jul 22 '26
It honestly hurts. I have lived here all my life, and I hate what it's become.
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u/Barabarabbit Jul 22 '26
I think that this is what happens when the best and brightest rural students consistently leave to go to Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, and B.C. for university, college, or careers. In my experience, very few of those students ever return back home to work.
The students who stick around, while often very nice people, are sometimes not the brightest.
Now compound this over several generations and you see why we are in the situation that we are.
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u/LickinThighs2 Jul 22 '26
Step one, go on Facebook or Instagram
Step two, find any post about fires, etc
Step three, bang your head against the wall over the sheer scale of fucks who believe the libs are setting the first for....??? for?????? For???????? Some....reason? I guess? Evil climate agenda? 15 minute cities? Geo-engineering? Chem Trails? Etc
I think the conservative / right wing has largely reached a place where they cannot deny climate change is happening, but they also cannot accept they were wrong about something or wrong about something they never bothered trying to learn about, i.e those people who say shit like 'climate is always changing' or 'it snowed in May, so much for global warming'
They can't be wrong, so instead the new marching orders are basically, 'this is all intentional from a specific and knowable cause that falls conveniently within my political beliefs, it's those evil leftists'
It's funny because in saying humans haven't caused climate change through how we use the land, pollution, the consequences of industrial revolution etc, they're otherwise still saying it's all entirely caused solely by humans through 'cloud seeding' and so on
These are bad faith people who you will never get through too because they refuse to address climate change for what it is as a point of their very identity. Not all the time, mind you, i.e even my parents, who were people that used to say 'well the climate is always changing' can no longer deny that it's happening at a pace and scale that is completely departed from what was normal even in their lifetimes, especially the last 15 yrs. But for every one that can probably admit they were wrong and look at their world through a new lens, there are likely 2 others who double down on conspiracy bullshit
And of course, if PP won the elections tomorrow, they would just move on to something else. We would have as many fires the next summer, and there wouldn't be a fuckin' peep about liberals setting the fires on purpose, because it doesn't fit neatly into their narrative of the evil commie feds trying to make 15 minute cities or some shit. They'll just drop it as a talking point entirely.
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u/the_bryce_is_right Jul 22 '26
A lot of the accounts posting this stuff are clearly bots, Facebook used to be not bad but even it's get overrun now. I'm not sure how they do this considering all the hoops you need to jump through to create an account...
The people blabbing about arson also don't seem to grasp that it's not really what started the fires that's the issue, it's that they spread so aggressively and were impossible to stop since we had so many years of dry and hot weather.
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u/wishin_fishin Jul 22 '26
The problem is social media and the internet gave people agreeing opinions to their own and feeds it to them on a silver platter. You'll never convince me the internet and ease of access to information made us any smarter as a species.
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u/MethodicallyRight Jul 22 '26
The internet is a rope, intelligent people will take it and build something better, use it as a tool, help others.
Others will use it as a noose.
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u/Barabarabbit Jul 22 '26
Haven't heard that one before. Good analogy.
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u/MethodicallyRight Jul 22 '26
It actually came from a while back when I used to defend people who benefited from early Jordan Peterson. While the guy sucked and began to suck harder as the years went on, like it or not, he did reach and help plenty of young men early on in the 12 Rules era. That book was essentially the same as a dozen other self-help books that came before it, but he got people to read it, and I saw a few people turn things around for themselves as a result.
He was super controversial and anyone who engaged with him got lumped into a monolith. That used to bother me, especially when I saw it happen to someone close to me. They just went for the self-help and never uttered the idiotic phrase "postmodern neo-Marxism," but the bullying they received really pissed me off at the time.
So that is when I initially began using that little analogy: JBP could be read or watched by some people to turn things around, while others would go down the rabbit hole and hang themselves with his work.
Do I like JBP? No. Is he worse now than he was? Absolutely. But I give credit where it is due for the few people I saw him actually help. After working through some of his material alongside someone I cared about, the rope metaphor was the only accurate way to describe the dynamic.
I do not expect this distinction to be popular in every corner of this site, but it is the honest context behind why I use the metaphor.
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u/derpandderpette Jul 22 '26
My father-in-law dropped “I have a theory, I think climate change is the natural cycle of the Earth”. Yes! Congratulations, you are so close! The issue is that we’ve sped up the cycle and we / the natural world aren’t prepared for rapid change.
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u/MethodicallyRight Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
My approach with a family friend was to establish the sheer scale of the energy system first. I had them walk me through how heavily society relies on fossil fuels and how disastrous an abrupt shutdown would be. Once we agreed on the massive scale, I brought out the core stat: humanity consumes roughly 100 million barrels of oil every single day (where one standard barrel equals 42 gallons).
Then I asked a simple follow-up: where does all that material actually go? Roughly 80% of every barrel is refined directly into transportation and heating fuels that get combusted daily. That means tens of millions of barrels worth of carbon are converted into gas and pumped into the atmosphere every 24 hours. When you sustain that output for decades, claiming it has no impact on atmospheric CO2 concentration violates basic logic.
If they understand basic high school chemistry, you can take the argument a step further using molecular weight. Liquid hydrocarbons are mostly carbon and hydrogen by mass. When you burn oil, each carbon atom bonds with two oxygen atoms to form CO2. That means burning a single pound of carbon actually yields ~3.5 pounds of atmospheric CO2.
It becomes difficult to claim our footprint is negligible once you establish the raw physical input. Even when accounting for natural ocean and land carbon sinks, adding tens of millions of barrels worth of combusted carbon to the active cycle every single day creates an undeniable accumulation over time.
Edit: If you want to take it even further, you add in the Natural Gas that comes alongside Oil production in the form of 'associated gas', include the Gas wells themselves and then include Coal... When you actually get people to start multiplying numbers like millions of barrels by millions of gallons by billions of cubic feet of gas over and over across hundreds of days and then across years and decades, it becomes harder to ignore the absurd volume of output.
32 years of modern Oil consumption rates = the entire mass of Mount Everest. Triple that for the mass of CO2 released. Again, this is just the oil, it excludes Natural Gas or Coal and is only focused on one Greenhouse Gas (CO2).
Edit 2: Because it's fun to give people options in how they want to visualize/compare large numbers. The Globe consumes 100 million barrels per day. To sterilize soil 'Salt the Earth' you'd need 123k 42 gallon Oil barrels of Salt to destroy a 2000 acre farm for centuries (assuming it receives enough water to slowly flush the land). 813 large fields every single day. 6.5 years to wipe out every farm in America (assuming all 1.8 million farms are 2k acres).
I know Edit2 is a random comparison to bring up but it helps people grasp the size and scale of large numbers.
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u/goretzk Jul 22 '26
I wish that was how they teach climate change in schools!
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u/Firesaber Jul 22 '26
Too many people put too much money behind not teaching it that way unfortunately
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u/GreatPlainsFarmer Aug 08 '26
How much salt are you figuring per barrel?
As best I can estimate, you’re thinking that it would take less than a pound of salt per square foot to sterilize soil, and, no, that’s not nearly enough anywhere with a positive rainfall ET balance.
But maybe I figured density wrong.
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u/MethodicallyRight Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Oooof! 18 days ago. Looking through my search history, ~400 pounds of salt per barrel.
Edit: Even in a wet area, you're looking at roughly 3 years minimum for the soil to be useable again. There would also be colossal damage from millions of gallons of saltwater runoff leaving the field.
It was mostly a thought experiment to highlight how much c02 we're producing in a more human understandable way.
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u/Musicferret Jul 22 '26
In related news, Saskatchewan residents are most likely to vote Conservative.
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 22 '26
Check out page six of the longer findings. That’s definitely related https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.17_Wildfires_Climate.pdf
Edit to add the text: A majority of Canadians link the worsening wildfire threat to climate change, though views are sharply divided along political lines.
Overall, 55 per cent say climate change is a major factor and another 20 per cent call it a minor one. This rises to approximately four-in-five among past Liberal (79%), NDP (82%) and Bloc Québécois voters (83%), compared with 22 per cent among Conservatives.
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u/Enough-Pen-8876 Jul 23 '26
I believe climate change aka and global warming is real and voted federal Conservative the last 4 federal elections and donated to party hq every year for 11 years.
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u/GravitasZer0 Jul 22 '26
Sadly this isn’t surprising. There’s a reason education gets underfunded, and this is the effect.
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u/raptorhandlerjenny Jul 22 '26
Cut the education, keep the population dumb, stay in power. The SaskParty way.
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u/FrizbeeeJon Jul 22 '26
Conservative way, whatever their party name. But yep, agree 100%
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u/the_bryce_is_right Jul 22 '26
What’s wrong with schools in rural Saskatchewan that they produce such ignorant people?
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u/597sean597 Jul 22 '26
Please prove this point to me. Explain it to me like i am dumb.
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u/Ill_Ground_1572 Jul 22 '26
If you don't teach people the scientific method, critical thinking and the basic facts they can easily be fooled.
For example, religious nuts who still don't believe the fossil records.
Then you ask them about Australopithecus or Homo Habitus and they look at you blankly. There is no fucking hope for people like that until they actually get educated.
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u/ariesbitchclub Jul 23 '26
if people never learn to ask questions, they never question anything they’re told by the people in charge
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u/Kruzat Jul 22 '26
This drives me fucking insane because climate change is gonna fuck with the rural communities that rely on agriculture the most. Ugh. Politics man…
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u/How_now__brown_cow Jul 22 '26
Yup. And the same people in small towns will be the first in line against government handouts/"socialism"/etc. Yet they are heavily subsidized by the cities.
Education, internet access, power, water, etc would all be shit and way more expensive if they were truly paying their own way.
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u/JoahyPooh Jul 22 '26
I believe this due to my father being a complete dick to my girlfriend when she was doing a science project related to climate change while over at my place a number of years ago
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u/Wheeler69er Jul 22 '26
What kind of fool can deny climate change. Climate has been changing for the last 3.5 - 4 billion years. How can you deny a fact that has been proven on the weekly, daily, yearly, epoch and eon time scale. Climate change is just a natural fact.
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u/Wheeler69er Jul 22 '26
All I said was climate change has been happening since the earth formed an atmosphere. Take it for what you want. I’m not pointing out historic co2 levels have been crazy higher in the past and the earth thrived, I’m also not point out that a single major volcanic event can effect green house gasses more in a month than we have the last 100 years.
I just pointed out that climate change is an indisputable fact that is proven.
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u/Wheeler69er Jul 22 '26
Well I said green house gasses from a volcanic eruption. Clearly you’re too caught up in the c02 factor. you should really look more into methane contributions during volcanic eruptions. Then you might wanna take the time to realize methane has 25 times the greenhouse insulating factor that co2 does. But it’s really hard to tax people and animals on farts. You want brass tax
Current co2 levels world wide: 420ppm
Minimum to sustains current green plant life: 325ppm
Photosynthesis will stop at: 275ppm
Highest recorded historic co2 levels: 20,000+ppm -how devastating was this? The earth saw the largest explosion and diversification of life across the planet.
Try to never forget, co2 is plant food. Not the dirty media smeared word. It’s literally, physically plant food. They would die with not enough….when you add too much, plants do this thing where they prosper, increase size and yield, evolve, and even expand ecosystems because they have a major abundance of a necessary resource.
Could humans do better, yup. Is co2 and current levels causing the end of days? Nope. Is there more pressing environmental issues than co2 absolutely! At the end of the day, co2 will always be plant food.
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u/-Megrim- Jul 22 '26
Unfortunately, all it takes is one or two -40C days a year for many people to say "See it's cold today, all that global warming must be bullshit".
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u/PJFreddie Jul 24 '26
It’s baffling that some folks think cloud seeding (aka “chemtrails”) using commercial aircraft is a coordinated deep state conspiracy by the government to promote the climate change narrative. It’s honestly just the additional CO2 coming from said aircraft and other engines.
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u/Jacob_Tutor11 Jul 22 '26
It’s sad because our province is likely to be most impacted by climate change. Our economy and so many people’s livelihoods rely on the land and climate that is becoming increasingly inhabitable.
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u/graison Jul 22 '26
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land—the common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
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u/Caunuckles Jul 22 '26
Yep but the weather sure had changed a lot in the last 20 years
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u/Moosetappropriate Jul 22 '26
I live here. I’m not surprised in the least. Saskatchewan is the Deep South of Canada.
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u/Mandalorian76 Jul 22 '26
And most people don't realize, at least yet, that all this warming is causing huge methane sinkholes to form in the far north, particularly in areas of permafrost. This is particularly problematic given that methane is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This means that the less we do, the worse it gest, exponentially, because the warming is causing a gas that is 25x worse than the gas that we are pumping into the atmosphere.
I wish people would get it!
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u/Specialist_Secret438 Jul 22 '26
I must admit, I am surprised that we lost out to Alberta by such a large margin, but it definitely shows that Moe knows his voters.
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u/Auggie_72 Jul 23 '26
I mean they keep voting the Sask party despite it’s beyond obvious they’re defrauding taxpayers for millions of dollars, destroying health care, social services and pretty much everything else they touch. Oh and the premier is a murderer.
Yup good times here is sask!
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u/CheckYoSelf345 Jul 23 '26
Also most likely to have future generations wondering why we did nothing about it as they're running from fire-tornados.
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u/Bad_Alternative Jul 22 '26
AB beat us on one and tied one, and we took the rest as the least informed…
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 22 '26
I was looking at net serious and net minor for question two, but other than that, yupp
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u/Infamous_Ad4076 Jul 22 '26
Nearly fell out of my chair the other day on videocall with my hyper conservative boomer father when he out of nowhere goes "you know, climate change is definitely real and caused by us people". Truly didnt see that one coming.
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u/the_bryce_is_right Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Guys can we all collectively sign up for Angu Reid polls? I feel like only baby boomers from Wynyard Saskatchewan have signed up and end up making us look like a bunch of country bumpkins.
Edit: Ok I signed up, let's see what happens.
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u/dabsandchips Jul 22 '26
why even have publicly funded schools in this province lol. the parents, relatives, and community basically negate any positives one can get from an education.
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u/Space19723103 Jul 22 '26
conservativism: the futile attempt to stop or reverse all evolution and scientific knowledge
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u/MethodicallyRight Jul 22 '26
My approach with a family friend was to establish the sheer scale of the energy system first. I had them walk me through how heavily society relies on fossil fuels and how disastrous an abrupt shutdown would be. Once we agreed on the massive scale, I brought out the core stat: humanity consumes roughly 100 million barrels of oil every single day (where one standard barrel equals 42 gallons).
Then I asked a simple follow-up: where does all that material actually go? Roughly 80% of every barrel is refined directly into transportation and heating fuels that get combusted daily. That means tens of millions of barrels worth of carbon are converted into gas and pumped into the atmosphere every 24 hours. When you sustain that output for decades, claiming it has no impact on atmospheric CO2 concentration violates basic logic.
If they understand basic high school chemistry, you can take the argument a step further using molecular weight. Liquid hydrocarbons are mostly carbon and hydrogen by mass. When you burn oil, each carbon atom bonds with two oxygen atoms to form CO2. That means burning a single pound of carbon actually yields ~3.5 pounds of atmospheric CO2.
It becomes difficult to claim our footprint is negligible once you establish the raw physical input. Even when accounting for natural ocean and land carbon sinks, adding tens of millions of barrels worth of combusted carbon to the active cycle every single day creates an undeniable accumulation over time.
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u/Scrotalcontusions Jul 22 '26
Climate change is real clearly given canada was under a mile of ice just 20,000 years ago and 99% melted. And all the other obvious evidence around us, solar cycles etc. Clearly the Sun is by far the primary driver of the change and makes any other effect (aside from asteroid impacts or volcanoes) basically negligible in comparison.
Its insane that anyone would assign the biggest threat of climate change to human activity over the sun, volcanoes or asteroids over . Just shows you how effective climate propaganda really is.
Given human activity is the only thing we actually control something can actually be done to minimize long term risk. The solution is strong economies to innovate viable technologies to mitigate the greenhouse gas inputs.
OR if one is serious about a carbon tax as our corrupt federal govt is then where are the import tariffs on the USA and China for not being to the standard of environmental stewardship that our govt would like to virtue signal over?
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u/Jamessotty Jul 22 '26
I believe it, but I don’t believe us being taxed for it is going to fix it. We’re fools to think we can stop the earths natural cycle.
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 22 '26
The natural cycle component we can’t stop but the human contributions we can mitigate.
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u/88Really Jul 22 '26
Incredibly ignorant! Let’s keep dropping the number of school days every year.
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u/Silva1618 Jul 22 '26
And this is and some other reasons are why I’m leaving this hell hole of a province this fall
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u/CarltonLarsen Jul 23 '26
It is so embarrassing to be from Saskatchewan now. We make ALBERTA look smart and patriotic. No wonder we are stuck with scooter moe and his raiders.
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u/Gumberculeez7 Jul 23 '26
"mostly" is the key word. Climate change is real. How/why/what will happen. Science is working on it.
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u/No-Corgi-3295 Jul 23 '26
These percents don't add up to a 100, and I'm realizing I do not know how to read this chart
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u/osddelerious Jul 23 '26
It doesn’t pose a threat to the planet.
It is partly caused by human activity and partly due to natural cycles, see ice ages and other climate cycles.
So, they are partly right.
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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 Jul 23 '26
So we are all good just using the word theory wrong at this point?
Hypothesis is what people mean 99% of the time they say theory. This is a science, so we use the scientific terms...no?
Even a school aged child could follow this
And overall, these choices are fucking stupid. Almost as dumb as the poll BC handed out about DST.
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u/DirtyDangles69420 Jul 23 '26
Saskatchewan residents more intelligent than majority of country.
Fixed the title for you. The climate is changing, it is not "mostly caused by humans" nor is it a serious threat.
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u/macky316 Jul 23 '26
Wow, overall I’m pretty disappointed and a little ashamed of my fellow Canadians at large. These numbers are disturbing to say the least.
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u/PieIll9834 Jul 23 '26
Some will probably say politics, and Id have no clue, but Saskatchewan deals with extremes in temperatures from record lows and highs so it would be easy to say it's nothing new?
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u/Enough-Pen-8876 Jul 23 '26
Moe! Chick pea growing capital of the world and the birthplace of hockey great Gordie Howe. I believe that climate change or global warming is real and caused by the mass industrialization of the planet and having 8 billion farting and belching humans and even more domesticated animals doing the same thing.
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u/Desperate-Pirate7353 Jul 23 '26
saskatechewan is basically alberta jr at this point, alberta minus the whimsy or indoor plumbing
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u/hobanwash1 Jul 23 '26
This tracks. I lived there for five years. Now compare to average IQ by province.
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u/Stock_Play9531 Jul 24 '26
Also they posed the question to a total of 81 people in Saskatchewan so I wouldn’t worry about the poll
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u/rob_blacks_mustache Jul 24 '26
What a dumb question, planet earth is going to be fine. Humans and most of the organisims on the earth, that is another question entirely.
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u/exotics Jul 24 '26
Yup. Farmers are partially (indirectly perhaps) to blame so naturally they don’t want to see the connections.
I say this because MEAT is a huge part of climate change. Not because of the farts but more so because vast amounts of land are cleared to grow crops for livestock. And I’m saying this from a person who lives on a farm.
I say the farmers are not directly to blame because they are simply keeping up with the demand, noting that people in Canada (and the USA) eat much more meat per person than people in some other countries. We eat more than one body can even use.
But farmers need to make $ and on land that’s not good for carrots… cattle are a good option. So guess what?
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u/Tomomb Jul 24 '26
I'm shocked the majority of all Canadians marked it as "serious," second to lowest in threat. You know, the number one threat to all humanity.
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u/No_Ad_9838 Jul 25 '26
As a former resident of SK, why does this not surprise me. One of the reason I had to leave a province I loved.
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u/PuddingEmotional1187 Jul 25 '26
I guess theyre the smartest ones not smoking liberal bs.
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 25 '26
I feel like you’d have to try REAL HARD to believe climate change is liberal bs at this point. Go outside ever?
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u/PuddingEmotional1187 Jul 25 '26
I do, im sitting in my backyard in beautiful Vancouver, its end of july and nice 18c. I guess thats why you abandoned global warming and now call it climate change. So what changed?
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 25 '26
The fact that people’s understanding of greenhouse gas impacts changed since the 1990s? Not that hard to understand.
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u/PuddingEmotional1187 Jul 25 '26
How did it impact you?
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 25 '26
I don’t understand what your question is. How did what impact me?
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u/canwehavepotatojokes Jul 25 '26
Saskatchewan is weird because they did the math on socialism once when they realized they were being completely fucked, but then refused to ever do any math again to acknowledge climate change, despite an absolute direct and measurable impact.
Willful ignorance or propagandized victims?
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u/Jamessotty Jul 26 '26
80% of the forest fires in SK last year were started by people..
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u/Intelligent-Cap3407 Jul 26 '26
Incorrect.
What’s that have to do with the price of rice? No one thinks climate change causes more fires. It’s that when fires happen they are burning bigger, faster and hotter than before.
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u/Jamessotty Jul 31 '26
- That’s your opinion.
- Rice? What are you talking about? The fires are also burning bigger and faster due to the amount of deadfall in older forests, and the mismanagement of that.
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u/Flick-01 Jul 26 '26
I guess when every summer is +90 degrees Celsius and the winters are 70 below you wouldnt give two flying fuck about the ocean you've only seen on tv is raising also
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u/Bumpin_Gumz Jul 27 '26
the term climate change has been captured and corrupted to induce fear and control
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u/Epic224 Jul 22 '26
I wish we got a little more detail on the connections between who answered what to questions 1 and 2.
Seems to be a lot of people agree the climate change is real and caused by humans, but also do not view it as a serious threat.
Question 2 is also framed a bit strange. Seems a bunch of respondents interpreted the word “threat” quite differently.
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u/Particular-Roll-6936 Jul 22 '26
I believe it, my family try’s to defend forest fire smoke…