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Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com)
Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates. From a report: The 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 1.7C (3F) 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. Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C.
Maybe they can move out of the igloos and into normal houses. ;)
You do realize you have a mental condition, right? Seriously.. Normal people don't act like you. Seriously.. You need to seek treatment..
Here in the Bay Area, we have real estate agents who specialize solely in the folks who want to cash out of their million+ homes and relocate to Montana, North Dakota, and rural plains Canada to reap to "benefits" of global warming.
Buy now, before it's too late.
This same story is 12 stories down.
must be the heat strike
Canada is a hotbed of virtue signalling.
It's a dirty business producing blue hair dye at industrial scales.
Twice the number of this story have been posted, so twice the warming
All those hot French-Canadian women in Quebec!
Warm maple syrup.
And 99% of the science in the world, and 100% of the science that isn't funded by big oil...
The Matrix just re-loaded.
* Canada is not warming at all.
* If it is warming, it's not rising faster than the rest of the world.
* It if it rising faster than the rest of the world, it's not human-created
* If it is human created, it's not a significant change anyway.
* profit!
LOL the day the carbon tax comes into effect the government propaganda network pumps out this bullshit story. Meanwhile we are sitting on the largest frost build up we have had in years. Don't know who still believes these chumps but you guys are pretty gullible.
It's the same old cold stuff .. Yes we had an exceptionally nice summer in 2018, but also a very, extra cold winter 2018-2019(thus far). I hate Canada, mostly because of the weather, then socialism(our healthcare SUCKS! fools, don't follow) and now replacement of my people(fastest rate of ethnic change in the world).
For all those Hollywood celebrities living in warm California that vowed to move to Canada after Trump won the election.
We want them to keep their word. It would be ironic if they were full of hot air....
They have more Tim Hortons than anywhere else in the world, so maybe that's the cause?
We are 1C warmer than before than everybody else too!
How can there be more than one who is warming more than everybody else?
It's not 99%. There's a lot of disagreement among scientists about how the data is presented, and what it means. Dissenting voices are often shouted down or silenced through defunding, threats, blackballing and in some cases murder. Just because it's not funded by big oil doesn't automatically make it accurate or legitimate. There is a huge monetary and political motivation to push this dire narrative based on fear.
This is terrifying, and we need to take action now. If youâ(TM)re not a bot or a shill and youâ(TM)re reading this, please consider seriously what steps you can take in your life to help mitigate climate change. Also please ensure that meaningful action on climate change is a prerequisite to getting your vote in the upcoming election.
Doesn't make more or less true.
By this time tomorrow they will be 164Degrees -- Florida
Where do they get their numbers from? I live in Canada and we had the coldest months ever. It is still in the 20s at the moment...
With your definition, "virtue signalling" is just a synonym for "conveying virtues in any way". Well, it's meaningless to have that definition.
The term "virtue signalling" has a very particular meaning: It means "conveying virtues in a way that doesn't require you to make a sacrifice for the sake of promoting the virtue in question, or that relies on other people to make a sacrifice." For example, promoting the idea that the 3rd world should be imported into Canada because it's important to help people in need is virtue signalling, because the people who say and promote this idea are relying on poorer people to pay for this importation, and to live alongside 3rd world when it arrives.
Hot air rises. And there's a real blowhard underneath Canada.
surely the Winter months reverse the effects of the Summer ones. be thankful you ve that for free, hen Central Air Conditiining is global it is the majority that complains of the thermostat the most.
Canada is a deep freeze most of the year. Suicide is rampant. Depression an everyday happening. Canada says, "THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT! We own you!"
It's not like Canada's vast arboreal forests will burn, it's frozen methane locked soils will release massive GHG emissions, and ...
oh
wait
You're saying they have 85 percent of the world's fresh water supplies?
Ooops.
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we need go back to the foundations of Slashdot. the 90's. Cell phone trch i a knockoff ofthe same passive-cooled theme.
a heatsink on everything. if it needs a fan then it deserves to burn.
Is it really the same story? or is it a unique instance of this story?
You are so right. I find it very troubling that politicians and special interest groups are pushing to get what that want using fake science and fear. Most people have not even read the reports and take it as the holy gospel.
It looks like homework done by a high school student. Where is the actual research. What are the methods used in their assumptions and forecast modelling. They present low emissions and high emissions scenarios and indicate that in 100 years if you follow the high emissions model temperatures will rise by 15 degrees.
What nonsense.
Without any real substantive data, procedures, observations to support your conclusions how can they even claim it is scientific.
Not to mention the timing. Lets release a paper stating the Apocalypse is here on the same day we impose carbon taxes.
At least Trudeau will be gone soon.
More paranoid babbling from the lunatic fringe.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Day of the rake soon
100% of the science that isn't funded by big oil...
Posting anonymously to avoid undoing previous moderations. I wonder: does the posting AC realizes that this is just a twist on the 'appeal to authority' logical fallacy?
More paranoid babbling from the lunatic fringe.
Yep. You'd think they'd get tired of beating this alarmist drum.
According to this study, Canada is warming much faster than the US.
Canada has much much liberaliam than the US.
Thesis: Liberalism causes climate change.
Looks like large areas of land will turn from freezing to much more friendly temperatures, then. And more space for agriculture, too.
Trudeau-hot air reference....
...we need to buy some beach property in British Colombia and setup a summer resort. Can't wait for the tourists to stop heading to Hawaii and Tahiti.
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Odd that you dismiss science paid for by Petroleum Companies because itâ(TM)s biased but you donâ(TM)t dismiss science paid for by Governments for the same reason. Odd
Also, a global phenomenon that would be caused by a heat capture in the upper atmosphere haveing only localized surface effect with no global upper atmosphere increase at all. Odd
To please the Creator of the entire Universe, Abraham cut a chunk of flesh from his son's sexual organ. Creep.
only fucking idiots believe the planet is warming. it is coolong.
The weather models predict that in the north the temperature will rise much faster than world averages, while at the equator it will be slower. So the warming up of Canada is entirely predictable.
See title and act accordingly.
For example, free speechers use the Voltair quote but they don't merely not fight to protect the right to protest for, say Occupy Wall Street, they actively HATE the people for doing it. It's virtue signalling since they can "stick up" for free speech AND look "smart" without having to do any of the actual, well, fighting for others' rights.
The government paid ones are paid whatever their research results in, but petroleum workers will be sacked or their research quashed (you DO know that Exxon had researchers confirming AGW in the 90s, right, but quashed it so it was only found out after a court case got the judge to demand the info be released). If you "think" that the government scientists will lie to enable government to "take away muh freedums!", then
a) they can do that REAL easy through countless methods. E.g. claim there's a massive caravan of criminals coming from south america
b) most government officials want bribes from the corporations, so want to avoid any attempt to harm their bottom line by lying about AGW if it were a lie. See the Deepwater Horizon debacle with a senator apologising to the BP chairman for having to answer questions for his part in the catastrophe.
If it were a fallacy it would have to be the poisoning the well fallacy, not appeal to authority one. Moreover, the claim that it IS a fallacy would be the fallacists fallacy. Appealing to authority is not fallacious, otherwise you'd be a dumbass for going to the doctors for your broken fingers or a car mechanic for the noises your car makes.
It's the secular laws against slaughter, even if god tells you to, that stopped christians YOU know from doing it. Go to where the Christians aren't shackled by secular law, like some African countries. They sacrifice there too.
It's been too cold to snow in Canada for many millennia. That's all changing now with the melting of the arctic ice and the availability of open water to provide snow like in the last ice age.
The sad part is, America and China are too addicted to "strong economies" to do anything about this in any meaningful way.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
That's what you mean, and you're not wrong.
Six weeks of poor skiing.
That word doesn't mean what you appear to think it means - there *is* universal suffrage in Venezuela, but that's not a bad thing.
Man made climate change causes increase feelings of Déjà vu
Who gives a fuck? Quite frankly, what's that have to do with this story? Or anything, for that matter.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The character of Kendall is a symptom of the disease that has been killing Slashdot since it was sold off the first time. The influx of rabid mobs, large sections of which are trolls for special interests including aggressive state propaganda agencies. Kendall has positioned himself as a useful idiot or worse. His utter fabrications and nearly uniform misconception of everything in the world imply that he is either deluded to the point of required institutionalization or is a paid provocateur destroying and distracting for hire.
"...fastest rate of ethnic change in the world."
Really? You sure about that? I'll bet that the native tribes of Canada would disagree, from roughly 500-100 years ago.
Anyhow you are free to leave. In fact I invite you to do so.
weather: the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
climate: the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation
In simple terms, it is average (climate) vs point-in-time (weather) conditions.
So climate change means there is a difference in the average weather conditions of a given place and time period versus a different time period, same place.
Comparing the climate of differing places is not climate change. I suppose it should probably be called place change. Again, in simple terms, climate change involves the climate of the same area, different times.
However, the time periods must not be too short or too long. After all, a short period is by definition not climate. On the other hand, if the period is too long then you have nothing to compare. You cannot find a difference if the time period extends back to the formation of the Earth. Therefore, to find climate change you must select from time periods that show a difference. Make sure you do it scientifically! Facts matter! Context... not so much.