Reports say Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.
According to a new scientific report, Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world.
The Canadian 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 one-point-seven centigrade 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.
The report stated that while both human activities and natural variations in the climate have contributed to the observed warming in Canada, but the human factor is dominant.
The report came as the government imposed carbon taxes on four of Canada’s ten provinces for failing to introduce their own plans for tackling climate change.
Canada’s environment includes more extreme weather conditions. Canada is one of nearly two hundred countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement a single global agreement on tackling climate change that seeks to keep temperatures well below two centigrade above pre-industrial times and endeavour to limit them even more, to one-point-five centigrade.
The Canadian government says it will meet the Paris target of cutting emissions to thirty-percent below 2005 levels by 2030 despite the fact that a number of official reports indicate the country is unlikely to meet its reduction targets without significant effort.
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