Canada is heating up

CANADA is experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with the effects most pronounced in the country’s north, according to a new government report.

Average temperatures have risen by 1.7C since 1948, or about double the global average of 0.8C, and “will warm further in the future, driven by human influence”, a report by Environment and Climate Change Canada says.

In northern Canada, approaching the Arctic Circle, temperatures rose on average by 2.3C in the same period.