Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates. 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.
"It's because Justin 'Fidel's Kid' Trudeau is sooo hot"
The report suggests that many of the effects already seen are probably irreversible.Canada's annual average temperature has warmed by an estimated 1.7C (3F) since 1948, when nationwide temperatures were first recorded.
Oh my heavens! The worst in 70 years! How about in the last ten years? Or the last ten thousand years?
The largest temperature increases have been seen in the North, the Prairies, and in northern British Columbia.
Wow. Does the data break down into voting precincts?
Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C."While both human activities and natural variations in the climate have contributed to the observed warming in Canada, the human factor is dominant," the report states.
"It is likely that more than half of the observed warming in Canada is due to the influence of human activities."
At least enough to have an excuse to raise taxes.
The report came as the government imposed carbon taxes on four of Canada's 10 provinces for failing to introduce their own plans for tackling climate change.