The sad reality is that the federal government does not care what its climate plans will cost people
. After all, there’s a climate emergency to be addressed — it says so right there on page 14: “With deadly heat waves and devastating wildfires and flooding, the cost and impact of inaction on Canadians’ lives and livelihoods is far too high.” Does that mean the ERP will stop these things from happening? No, of course not, this is just more climate sophistry. The ERP will not affect the incidence of extreme weather.
But the sophistry runs even deeper: are they saying we are experiencing more heat waves, fires and floods due to climate change? They skate past that question without answering it, so let’s see what the experts say. The 2019on climate change noted that robust statistical assessment of trends in heat waves is “challenging” and that in Canada there’s only medium confidence that more places have experienced an increase in the number of heat waves than a decrease. Meanwhile, the 2017 U.S.
reported that heat wave magnitudes were considerably higher in the 1930s, while over the past century high temperatures experienced a netThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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