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Its impossible to conclude anything other than “reports” such as these more political documents designed to assist in the implementation of a favoured political agenda


Yesterday, Aaron Gunn pointed out a news story which alleged that Canada is warming at twice the rate of other counties (see below).  It even stated this was ‘effectively irreversible’.  I don’t know about you, but it seems odd that given the winds that blow around the globe, the cooling effect of three oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic), it seems that somehow, viciously, out temperate is double that of other countries in the world.


With tens of thousands of forested acres covering our country, many would state Canada is doing more than its part in reducing CO2


Canada warming twice as fast — 'effectively irreversible' — as rest of the world: scientific report
The Canadian Press ~~ Updated: April 2, 2019

By the middle of this century most marine regions in the Canadian North could be ice-free for at least a month at a time.  At stake is just how bad that warming gets, said several scientists presenting the Canada’s Changing Climate Report in Ottawa Monday.

The report is the first in a series of scientific assessments the department is producing and the first that zeros in on the changes Canada is seeing as a result of global warming.



So, what does Aaron Gunn have to say on reports such as the above mentioned one?


Here’s the issue with reports like these… a warming (or changing) climate is not inherently a bad thing – especially for a country like Canada.”

Of course, it may, on the whole, present more challenges, and costs, than it does opportunities, and yet when we read reports (or at least their summaries) they present only the imagined worst-case scenarios” he stated

Scenarios without considering the potentially large opportunities and benefits, perpetuating the delusion that we are somehow currently living in the perfect Goldilocks climate - neither too cold nor too hot but, rather, just right”, he continued

Meantime Danielle Smith, writing in a Canadian Press story in the Vancouver Sun, in January of this year indicated that:

Taking just one example: Canada has one of the highest number of trees on the planet at 318 billion (8,953 trees per person) compared to 139 billion in China (102 trees per person). A tree can sequester up to 23 kilograms of CO2 a year and one tonne over its lifecycle.

Continuing, she made the point, “That means one million trees sequester one megatonne, one billion trees sequester 1,000 megatonnes, and Canada’s 318 billion trees sequester 318,000 megatonnes of CO2”.

Why don’t we get any credit for that?”, she asked

I believe Gunn is correct when he says, “It is thus impossible to conclude anything other than “reports” such as these are less a scientific presentation of facts and more political documents designed to assist in the implementation of a favoured political agenda”.


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