This week, Natural Resources Canada released a major report on climate change and its potential impacts in Canada. The report is novel-thick, the first significant NRCan missive on climate change since 2008, and it rattles off a list of near-future worries that will be familiar to anyone watching climate news closely — heavier rains, more extreme weather events, rising sea levels and acidifying oceans.
You can be forgiven if this is the first you heard of it, since the report was published without so much as a press release. I can only assume this is because the report represents a (Read more…)