Allison Hanes: Devastating climate change is on our doorstep

Driving into downtown Montreal during the evening rush hour Tuesday was a sobering experience.
The sun was setting on a gorgeous sunny day that shattered a 60-year temperature record as a gleaming river of steel inched along in the opposite direction.
This typical scene of gridlock on Montreal’s busiest highways served as an ominous reminder, both of the catastrophe our planet is facing and the magnitude of the effort it will take to alter our grim fate.
Just one day earlier, a United Nati