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So when I was researching this story and chatting with friends it was interesting how many assumed deep-sea commercial mining was already a thing. It’s not — but could be in less than a year.
Lisa Johnson
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Lisa Johnson
@lisasj
Big on nature. Crafty. Climate + science journalist @ CBC News. Mostly inactive on Twitter as of 2023 — find me at Lisa dot Johnson at CBC.ca
Kootenays via Vancouver
Joined November 2008
- Replying to @lisasjBut then a geologist @GeoBrentatlarge warned me this wasn’t over and not to go if I could avoid it. I stayed put. Sure enough a mudslide came down on #BCHwy99. At least one person has been killed and I am so sorry for her family’s loss.
- Replying to @lisasjThis route has been smooth so far, despite a mudslide on the I-5 and some flooding from the Nooksack River near Bellingham. Now to finish the drive and cross (?) the border, hoping the news that PCR test requirements have been waived has made its way to that border agent 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
- Replying to @drherrlingThat sounds completely insane. And yet for patients - as you know - family docs are the gateway to most things. I wonder a lot about the care model I had when pregnant from a midwifery practice in East Van. Team care, they all knew me and I them. It worked.
- but but but gas prices
- Psyched to be guest hosting @cbcwhatonearth from the old Nelson bureau this week. The bag on the microphone stand is filled with almonds for ballast.
- I vividly remember my first time snorkeling in a kelp forest near @BamfieldMSC - the awe! It was eye opening to learn what climate change is doing to kelp right on the B.C. coast.
- Replying to @DaleManucdocDale we haven't met but as a colleague across the country, I'm sorry this happened and no journalist should be treated this way for doing their job.
- And these were always misleading names. A one in 20 year flood means a 5% chance of happening every year. One in 100 years equals 1%. Or, rather, equaled, before human-caused climate change.“100 year floods” aren’t 100 year floods anymore. “100 year storms” aren’t 100 year storms anymore. “Once in a lifetime” events aren’t once in a lifetime anymore. ALL will be more & more “normal” as the #ClimateCrisis continues to get worse due to our #ClimateChange inaction.
