Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) 108
Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates. From a report: The federal government climate report also warns that changes are already evident in many parts of the country and are projected to intensify. Canada's Arctic has seen the deepest impact and will continue to warm at more than double the global rate. The report suggests that many of the effects already seen are probably irreversible. Canada's annual average temperature has increased by an estimated 1.7C (3F) since 1948, when nationwide temperatures were first recorded. The largest temperature increases have been seen in the North, the Prairies, and in northern British Columbia. Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C.
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Duplicate post? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Duplicate post? (Score:4, Funny)
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Canada has to do it twice: once in English with extra u's and once in French with extra accents.
Same Story? (Score:2)
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Stampeding Canooks are worse than stampeding mooses.
Well, of course it is! (Score:1)
Canada is a hotbed of virtue signalling.
It's a dirty business producing blue hair dye at industrial scales.
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Must be all the hot air.
I found out why (Score:3)
Twice the number of this story have been posted, so twice the warming
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Isn't it obvious? (Score:1)
Mmmmmm..... (Score:2)
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More paranoid babbling from the lunatic fringe.
I trust this study (Score:2)
According to this study, Canada is warming much faster than the US.
Canada has much much liberaliam than the US.
Thesis: Liberalism causes climate change.
Take the red pill (Score:2)
No it isn't (Score:3, Insightful)
* Canada is not warming at all.
* If it is warming, it's not rising faster than the rest of the world.
* It if it rising faster than the rest of the world, it's not human-created
* If it is human created, it's not a significant change anyway.
* profit!
Re:No it isn't (Score:4, Insightful)
* If it is human created, it's too late to stop it now anyway.
* If it's not too late to stop it, why should we be the ones to stop our pollution when country X is polluting too!
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when country X is polluting too!
You're not wrong. Frankly, as a Canadian, I'm sick of being told I should feel guilty about our Alberta having one of the most well-run oil industries in the world while Saudi Arabia shits on human rights and Venezuela's citizens live in universal suffrage.
Re: No it isn't (Score:1)
Nova Scotian here, Bull Shit... (Score:2, Interesting)
It's the same old cold stuff .. Yes we had an exceptionally nice summer in 2018, but also a very, extra cold winter 2018-2019(thus far). I hate Canada, mostly because of the weather, then socialism(our healthcare SUCKS! fools, don't follow) and now replacement of my people(fastest rate of ethnic change in the world).
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Well, it can be done right, take a look at Europe. Of course, everyone has to pay, too, it's not just that everyone should be going to get cheap pills.
Canada needs to warm up (Score:2)
We want them to keep their word. It would be ironic if they were full of hot air....
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You realize when they move home they'll be old and claim CPP and OAS and will be a drain on the economy, eh?
(caveat: me too)
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They didn't want our celebrities, built a wall, and made Hollywood pay for it.
Is it Tim Hortons? (Score:2)
Posting a story a second time... (Score:2)
Duh ? (Score:1)
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That's like a summer day. I love how trolls forget that Canada has been metric for longer than they've been alive.
Not a problem (Score:2)
It's not like Canada's vast arboreal forests will burn, it's frozen methane locked soils will release massive GHG emissions, and ...
oh
wait
You're saying they have 85 percent of the world's fresh water supplies?
Ooops.
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Good for them, more habitable areas, then (Score:2)
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"Looks like large areas of land will turn from freezing to much more friendly temperatures, then. And more space for agriculture, too."
I'm sure the Russians will appreciate these features of the land as they invade from the now indefensible northern border...
I keep telling my wife.... (Score:2)
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Climate Models Predict faster Warming up North (Score:2)
The weather models predict that in the north the temperature will rise much faster than world averages, while at the equator it will be slower. So the warming up of Canada is entirely predictable.
Economy (Score:2)
Don't confuse climate with weather! (Score:2)
weather: the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
climate: the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation
In simple terms, it is average (climate) vs point-in-time (weather) conditions.
So climate change means there is a difference in the average weather conditions of a given place and time period versus a different time period, sa
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Who gives a fuck? Quite frankly, what's that have to do with this story? Or anything, for that matter.