"Effectively irreversible": Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says
Source: CBS News
BY SOPHIE LEWIS
UPDATED ON: APRIL 2, 2019 / 8:25 PM / CBS NEWS
Global warming is disproportionately affecting Canada. A new report by the Canadian government's Environment and Climate Change department indicates that the country is warming at a significantly faster rate than the rest of the world.
Canada's Changing Climate Report concludes that, on average, Canada's climate has been warming at double the rate of the world as a whole — a trend that scientists expect to continue. Since 1948, Canada's average land temperature has increased by 1.7 degrees Celsius, or about 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures in northern Canada have increased even more. For comparison, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies estimate that the average global temperature has increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius) since 1880.
Many of the effects of Canada's warming are "effectively irreversible," the report states. And it affirms that "human influence" is more to blame for the observed temperature increases than natural causes.
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The effects of global warming are also being felt by Canada's neighbor, Alaska. Last weekend, parts of Alaska hit temperatures of 30 to 40 degrees above normal, shattering previous records. "Between a rapidly changing environment and lack of societal response, I'm very concerned," climate expert Rick Thoman, of NOAA's Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, told CBS News last week.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-is-warming-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-of-the-world-climate-change-report-says/
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that would be a major methane release. 
Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn.
1.) Enrich my buddies..
2.) Keep the suthn heathen behind the border..
3.) Insult everyone
4.) Screw with shit I don't understand
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