Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns
A new federal report warns that Canada faces a future with significantly higher temperatures, potentially increasing by 5 C by the end of the century. The study emphasizes that human-driven climate change is causing irreversible damage to Canadian landscapes and ecosystems.
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Provides critical data for long-term climate policy and infrastructure planning in response to environmental degradation.
The second edition of Canada's Changing Climate Report , a synthesis of the science on the impact of a warming planet on Canadians, confirms with greater confidence that burning fossil fuels, or what the report calls "human activities," are responsible for climate change.
On Thursday, the federal government released a summary of the report's findings.
The report is forward-looking, assessing what Canada would look like under different scenarios depending on whether countries fulfil their climate commitments.
"We do still have some agency," said Nathan Gillett, one of the report's authors and a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. "Where emissions go from here will affect how temperatures evolve through the century and whether we can stabilize temperature or whether it just keeps increasing."
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