Leaked U.S. climate change report should be replicated in Canada: Institute
OTTAWA — The Canadian government should look at trying to replicate the research in a new U.S. report leaked this week that bluntly says climate change is real and is already having an impact on weather patterns in America, a national environmental think tank said Tuesday.
Erin Flanagan, director of federal policy for The Pembina Institute, said the American report helps to make the costs of climate change real to people.
The report was to be part of the mandated National Climate Change Assessment mandated by law to be produced every four years in the United States.
It points to thousands of research studies that demonstrate the reality of a warming planet — the cause of which is largely attributable to greenhouse gas emissions which trap heat in the atmosphere — and the fact that science can now link some extreme weather events to it.