The Snowy mountain wildfire, visible from Cawston, British Columbia, on 2 August 2018.
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Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, a landmark government report has found, warning that drastic action is the only way to avoid catastrophic outcomes. (emphasis added)
“The science is clear – Canada’s climate is warming more rapidly than the global average, and this level of warming effectively cannot be changed,” Nancy Hamzawi, assistant deputy minister for science and technology at Environment and Climate Change Canada, told reporters on Monday.
The report, released late on Monday by Environment and Climate Change Canada, paints a grim picture of Canada’s future, in which deadly heatwaves and heavy rainstorms become a common occurrence. Forty-three government scientists and academics authored the peer-reviewed report.
While global temperatures have increased 0.8C since 1948, Canada has seen an increase of 1.7C – more than double the global average.
And in the Arctic, the warming is happening at a much faster rate of 2.3C, the […]
I’ve joined ER [Extinction Rebellion] as a faint last hope. There are worldwide protests in country capitals around the planet scheduled for April 15th, a Monday. The idea is to make business as usual not work any longer before the environment does it for us.
I’ve also tried in vain the get some presenters for the S.A.N.D. conferences to relate consciousness to this abrupt environmental breakdown as it is now well beyond simple climate patterns failure.