With spring flooding showing few signs of letting up in the coming years, it’s possible more provincial governments and municipalities could follow suit. Share your fav memories with #natureofthings60. Such changes are projected to continue in the future, with the magnitude of change proportional to the magnitude of mean temperature change.

Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Estimates are derived from the gridded station data. By and large, the report said health issues caused by climate change can be managed. The region that has brought us so many folk songs about sinking ships is itself sinking into the sea, according to geoscientists. There’s little chance of eliminating the risks posed by climate change altogether as the planet warms. WATCH: Flood relief focus on protecting infrastructure, relocating resident. “A spark can light a raging inferno,” says University of Alberta wildfire expert Mike Flannigan. Climate change is opening the door to other diseases which may make their way into Canada in the future. Hot, dry weather turns the grass into a flammable fuel source turning our forests into a powder keg ready to burn. (And, if you’re looking for realistic strategies to help save the planet, read this, this and this.). Want to discuss? Of all the threats caused by climate change, impacts on fisheries could be some of the most challenging to mitigate.

Of 13 declining chinook salmon populations, eight of them are endangered and four are threatened.

Forest fires are heating up A flood protection plan is already underway to try to preserve Cape Breton’s Fortress of Louisbourg. Toronto and Montreal could see 50 percent more of these disastrous weather events in coming decades. Additional measures like expanding protected areas could help ecosystems remain healthy and viable. By 2040, Southern Ontario’s maximum temperatures will rise to 44 degrees Celsius. As conditions warm, mosquitoes previously only found in the tropics are finding their way north carrying with them dengue, zika, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses. Both the observed and projected increases in mean temperature in Canada are about twice the corresponding increases in the global mean temperature, regardless of the emission scenario. Canada faces 6 key climate change risks. In some areas of Canada, where temperatures are so low, and the growing season so short, warming may provide new opportunities for agriculture as the growing season expands. When combined with hotter temperatures, that means increased drought risks in the B.C. MORE: Melting Ice Reveals Secrets About Human History, Without climate change, archaeologists would not have been able to find artifacts or understand the people that used them. Once bitten, the mice carry the Lyme disease bacteria for life. Source: Report by Environment and Climate Change Canada.). Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Droughts, flooding and extreme weather around the world will drive people out of their homes by the millions. How did The Nature of Things astonish/inform/enlighten you? READ MORE: Permafrost in Canadian Arctic thawing 70 years earlier than predicted. This comes after a federal study earlier this year found Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. In Canada, these changes include rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and increases in certain types of hazardous weather. The combination of rising water and descending ground is projected to change the relative sea level by a metre by 2100. The report says that extreme heat events — which currently occur every 20 years on average — will happen once every five years by the middle of the century under a low-emissions scenario, and every other year in a high-emissions scenario.