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Facts about Climate Change in Canada
At recent town hall meetings held in Atlantic Canada by the federal government, the following facts were presented:
Global temperatures have already increased by about 0.85 degrees Celsius since 1880.
Canada has warmed about twice the global average and Canada’s North is warming even more quickly.
Canadians are already feeling the effects of climate change in the following ways:
more extreme weather events
longer and more extensive heat waves and fewer cold spells
thawing permafrost and loss of ice cover earlier river ice breakup and spring runoff
increased precipitation over large parts of Canada, with more snowfall in the northwest Arctic
local food sources (both wildlife and infrastructure) of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are threatened
The biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in Canada by sector are:
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