‘Findings Should Inspire Naked Fear’: Canada Warming at Twice the Global Rate

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Protesters hold up anti-pipeline signs as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a public town hall in Nanaimo, B.C., on  Feb. 2, 2018. (Photo: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, according to a new government report that provoked impassioned calls to urgently address human activities that produce planet-heating emissions.

Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR) was commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), a federal government department. It was scheduled for release on Tuesday but leaked to CBC News columnist Neil Macdonald on Monday.

Macdonald called the report’s findings “beyond grim,” and said they “trigger thoughts of hoarding and maybe selling the house and moving to higher ground. To a millennial, the findings should inspire…

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