Global Warming In Canada

Climate change is a real issue that is currently impacting every single region of the world. The world is a very large place with many different regions. Every region in the world is experiencing unique effects of climate change but we are all experiencing some form of it, nonetheless. The global average temperature has risen 0.74 degrees celius over the past 100 years (Climate). We all contribute to the effects of climate change and we are all responsible for helping reverse it. I live in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Mississauga is Ontario’s third largest city and Canada’s sixth largest city, which is unique for a suburban residential area. With a population over 700,000 (and growing), Mississauga is a chief contributer to the climate change

Global warming is the increase of the Earth’s surface temperature, due to the excessive amount of greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere. Most parts of the world are and will be affected by the effects of global warming, Canada is not an exception. Canada has been affected both positively and negatively. But most of its effects are negative; it is up to our government to fix the problems that global warming caused.

Global warming is known as a slow increase in temperature over the course of an extended period of time (Simpson, 2009). Canadians have long seen this term being used across the media on a whim, but could one imagine that one of the countries most responsible for the crisis is Canada? Global warming is affecting Canadians at an unsettling rate, a notable example being the Lowell Glacier of Kluane National Park, B.C. This glacier has been losing 22 cubic kilometres of ice a year- about 22 billion cubic metres of water. Thus, specialists decided on methods to slow melting, the best solution being to cut down on “human consumption of fossil fuels” (“Unprecedented B.C glacier melt seeps into U.S climate change concerns”, 2014). Regardless of its resolution, Canada will never be able to do enough to completely solve the issue of global warming without making compromises. However, Canadians have been taking the issue more seriously. Three factors exist that

We once lived in a world lush and plentiful where we enjoyed all the natural resources peacefully. However at the beginning of the industrial revolution more people moved to the cities therefore increasing their dependency load. Fastforward to today and the world has seen a drastic change in the loss of natural resources as well as a number of health related illnesses like asthma. This is mainly due to the effects from carbon pollution, greenhouse gases and global warming. Canada as a country is thought of as environmentally aware and progressive. Actually has many issues regarding this topic and if it is not taken care of it will affect the future of the nation. I care about this topic because it has to

During the Canadian Climate Change conference, there were many compelling arguments for both sides. On the side that wanted Canada to take immediate action, they brought up the fact that our future generations would have to suffer from the consequences of our selfish, greedy and reckless lifestyle of burning fossil fuels. Furthermore, they exaggerated the outcomes of manmade climate change and bringing up feelings of pity for the future generations because they will have to live in a polluted world that humans created. They said that if we do not take action now, there will be many jobs lost due to climate change. Although there are many jobs in the fossil fuels business, they will not continue forever because they are finite and will run

Climate change has become the most serious global environmental threat with sides of people who do not believe it exists and people who are actually aware. The release of greenhouse gases such as carbon and methane into the atmosphere has been known to be one of the major causes of climate change. Scientists explain that these emissions must drastically reduce to avoid a 2°C rise in average global temperature. Therefore different countries have made policies and ways to reduce the production of these gases and Canada is one of them. Canada ranks 15th out of 17 countries for greenhouse gas emissions per capita.Canada’s per capita decreased by nearly 5% between 1990 and 2010 while the total GHG emissions in Canada grew by 17%. The

The first driver is observed climate change impacts. In Canada, and in Ontario specifically, the ways in which the climate is changing are generally known to us. Shorter and warmer winters, earlier snow melts, increased extreme precipitation, and extreme heat events. These observed climate impacts and more frequent extreme weather events are proving to be very costly. The Insurance Bureau of Canada, for instance, reported that the value of total insurance claims related to weather events has increased 40 fold between 1983 and 2013 (Burgess, 2014). Impacts on the health and well-being of Canadians are also displayed beyond monetary costs and frequently involve displacement, injuries and loss of life (Lemmen & Warren, 2008). Without aggressive

The climate change impacts of greenhouse gases threaten the economic development and environmental quality. These threats indicate that all nations regardless their economic growth should work collaboratively to reduce the emission to a certain level. Hare et al. (2011) argued that “climate change is a collective action problem” thus requires a global coordination from all countries. This indicates that actions from several countries would never be sufficient to address the climate change problem. If a global target to limit warming to 2°C or below is about to achieve (UNFCCC 2010, p.4) a broad range of participation is required (Hare et al., 2011). However, the increasing complexity of negotiation processes is inevitable. Each country will pursue its own interests during the

The current status of the Paris Agreement is accompanied with very high aspirations in limiting emissions to relatively safe levels. It lies with a new style of international cooperation, one that has allowed 195 countries to adopt an agreement that is likely to have a significant impact on the emissions that breaks new ground in international climate policy, by setting free to make their own commitments. However, the global surface temperatures are predicted to rise by are predicted to rise by 3–4 °C, far above the agreement’s goal of limiting increases to 1.5 °C. This implies that chances of success for Paris will be determined by the overall efforts to reinforce or integrate these nonbinding commitments included in the national pledges

Some context can now be put forth so as to inform readers about what is really going on in Alberta. Albertans are in the infancy of the potentially massive economic, environmental, and social repercussions of climate change. The province just felt its hottest year on record (CITE) and is heading into unknown territory. Into the bargain, Alberta is just getting over one of its worst economic bust cycles that it has ever witnessed. The price of oil has fallen FIND THIS OUT 2014-2015. This has had a dramatic impact on families who rely on income from the fossil fuel industry to put food on their tables. Provincial unemployment currently sits at nine percent – the highest rate in 22 years FIND THIS OUT. A loss of jobs coupled with economic

Among the main goals of the Paris Agreement is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels” (Paris Agreement, 2015). That is, countries involved in the agreement are expected to implement measures that

Environmental issues are becoming a growing concern for the world as well as for the world's leaders. Pollution, littering and the burning of fossil fuels are all problems that have drastically affected humans over the past few years. Impure drinking water, radiation, less ecological diversity and cancer are a few of such harms that the world has experienced. However, one of the most prominent concerns is the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect, a natural occurrence, is turning deadly with the introduction of humans and carbon emissions and is slowly heating up the world. In future years this could cause catastrophic consequences. Rising global temperatures threatens the very existence of the

Sea level are rising, Glacier are melting, forest are dying, and wildlife is struggling and it is called global warming. The earth’s temperature is increasing day by day due to the greenhouse gases, which is caused due to humans activities. So human are responsible for this and it is the moral duty of a human being to take care of this problem. In order to maintain balance in earth and controlling global warming, the whole world was assigned to participate in the Paris agreement. Paris agreement is working as a team to control global warming, focusing on using renewable energy and fighting against climate change to make earth as healthy as before. So, the Paris agreement is protecting the earth and

"'The future is here. Greenhouse warming is no longer just a possibility, it is happening now,' said Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund" ("Greenhouse Warning"). Representatives from more than 160 countries met together in the first ten days of December this year to come to an agreement on a treaty to slow down global warming by setting the limits on the countries' greenhouse gases emissions, which include the emissions of carbon dioxide the industries, machines, and cars produce, to preserve the world as we know it, threatened by the consequences of the global warming. In spite of the causes of the global warming, people [humanity] can implement

The Paris climate conference was held in December and 195 countries participated in an agreement pertaining to climate change. This agreement is global and is expected to be put into plan in 2020. The main goal of this conference was to develop a plan to have countries participate in trying to bring global warming down to 2°C (European Commission, 2016). Like every other agreement that has had an impact on the world’s decisions there is both supporters and critics which results in the pros and cons of the development of the plan. There are justifiably arguments on each side and there is no right answer until the plan goes into full effect in 2020. Therefore, the issue of climate change is not going anywhere anytime soon.