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applegrove

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Mon Apr 1, 2019, 05:13 PM Apr 2019

Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds [View all]

Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds

CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-warming-at-twice-the-global-rate-leaked-report-finds-1.5079765

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Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a government report leaked to CBC News columnist Neil Macdonald by a government source.

Entitled 'Canada's Changing Climate Report (CCCR)', the study was commissioned by the Environment and Climate Change Department and was slated to be released officially on Tuesday. That release date was moved up to Monday after CBC published its story about the leaked report.

The leaked copy of the report says that since 1948, Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed 1.7 C, with higher rates seen in the North, the Prairies and northern British Columbia. In Northern Canada, the annual average temperature has increased by 2.3 C.

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since 1948, global average temperatures have increased by about 0.8 C.


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