Climate change could mean nicer, milder weather in Canada

[Tennis]

Research suggests climate change could increase the number of nice days Canadians enjoy.

Most global warming studies have focused on extreme weather or broad-scale averages of temperature and precipitation. But Karin van der Wiel, of Princeton University, says that’s not how people will experience their new circumstances.

“If you are a person living in Canada, it’s never the average climate,” said van der Wiel, whose paper is being published Wednesday in the journal Climatic Change.

Van der Wiel and her colleagues thought a good way to demonstrate the daily consequences of increased greenhouse gases in the air would be to calculate how many ‘mild days’ different regions of the globe would experience – days topping out between 18 C and 30 C, with less than one millimetre of rainfall and not too much humidity.

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“We looked at the actual days that feel mild,” she said. “These are the days that people can relate to – the day you had a really nice walk in the park or went to a baseball game and it was really nice.”

It turns out Canada is one of the places to be.

The globe, on average, is expected to lose four days of nice weather by 2035 and 10 days by 2081. Africa, Asia and Latin America could see 15 to 50 fewer days of mild weather a year by the end of the century. Parts of the U.S. South Atlantic coast could lose a couple of weeks.

Forests once harvested for timber are likely to turn into prairie. Pacific coast fisheries are predicted to decline up to 10 per cent.

The paper also points out that areas about to lose nice weather are much more heavily populated than ones about to gain some, which has implications for everything from weather-related disasters to the crops people depend on.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3188392/cl...-canada-study/

Interesting.

As a global citizen and someone who cares about all of mankind, I still advocate for strong measures to reduce our GHG emissions. I'm glad that Mr Trudeau is imposing a carbon tax over here.

Hopefully we can also increase refugee intake from areas suffering from climate change as we endeavor to do our part.

[Medusa Cascade]

Well looks like Canada will need some Freedom! soon

[Kalis]

As a global citizen...

Must have been a lot of effort to fill in all those passport applications.

[Independent voter]

Male or female?

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I love that Canada supports to fight Climate change! Looks very good over there - they do everything right. I hope we can do the same and make this world a better place for all of us and don't hide behind borders just because "we could because our country will be better after the upheaval". Thumbs up to Canada!

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The same goes for bavaria, while the rest of germany might just sink, bavaria finally get's a coast!

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The same goes for bavaria, while the rest of germany might just sink, bavaria finally get's a coast!

That's like the meme that describes 99,9% of what CSU is about gj!

[minteK917]

Canada will be paradise once climate change takes even more hold. The altitude and the stable tectonic plates are perfect.