Canada warming twice as fast as rest of the world, scientific report shows
OTTAWA — Canada is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world and that warming is “effectively irreversible,” a new scientific report from Environment and Climate Change Canada says.
Warming is happening even faster in winter, leaving southern Canadians with more winter rainfall and northern Canadians with melting permafrost and less sea ice.
The Arctic is hit the hardest, with estimates that it is warming three times as fast as the rest of the world, leaving the risk that by the middle of this century most marine regions in the Canadian North will be ice-free for at least a month at a time.