By 2050 we will have Washington weather
Various headlines have mentioned other cities’ changing climates according to a Swiss-based study – London to Barcelona, Paris to Canberra and so on. So Montreal can expect the climate of Washington DC by 2050.
ant6n 00:56 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
For all Quebecers pride about hydro power, let’s remember that Canada overall produces 3x more per capita Co2 than the G20, and in terms of emissions is heading towards a 3-4C increase.
Tim F 05:43 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
I’d be interested in seeing a provincial breakdown of per capita emissions. I’d still expect us to be above average, but by how much?
Kate 08:27 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
There are various sources, Tim F, but here’s a page with a graph comparing the provinces and territories in 1990, 2005 and 2015. A couple of interesting trends, including that while Quebec and Ontario managed to marginally reduce their emissions by 2015, Alberta’s are insane.
ant6n 09:27 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
Huh, according to that, Alberta has about 6.4x the per-capita emissions of Quebec (63T vs 9.8T). Quebec, despite relying almost exclusively on hydro and not having much manufacturing, isn’t doing all that great, being in line with some of the worse EU countries (e.g. Germany 9.7T). Alberta, as a country, would tie for first place on the global emissions list (with the Pacific island nation of Palau), and be 3x worse than the critically insufficient countries of Saudi Arabia (20T) and 4x as bad as the US (16T).
Canada overall emits 17T per capita.
Alex L 09:39 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
There are more detailed numbers here: https://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/provincial/environment/ghg-emissions.aspx?