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The federal government’s climate report is an embellishment of both the current and future net costs of global warming. Read more.

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Beyond highlighting a scary but implausible scenario, the report exaggerates the current harms of climate change. Even under RCP 8.5, the real net costs of climate change are far into the future. In the short term, global warming is in fact a net, particularly to people in Canada and other places in the world that would benefit from reduced heating costs, a better climate for agriculture and other advantages of warming.

by Moody’s in 2019, for example, projected that under the RCP 8.5 scenario, by the year 2048 real GDP in Canada would be 0.31 per cent higher than under its baseline scenario.Article content Touch the federal government’s climate report where you will and you find embellishment of both the current and future net costs of global warming. Federal minister of natural resources John Wilkinsonwhen releasing it that the intention of the report “is to ensure Canadians have access to credible, evidence-based information, information that will go on to inform their choices as well as our own as we develop Canada’s first National Adaptation Strategy.

But by promoting unrealistic scenarios and catastrophic predictions, the report’s likely effect — and perhaps its true aim, as well — will be to stir up climate alarmism in the public and drum up political support for the government’s ambitions to expand its economic control through unjustifiably costly climate policies.Share this article in your social network

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