CITC14H3 Lecture 6: Planning for Climate Change
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Hotter, drier summers and extreme rainfall events. Co2 released in the atmosphere resulting in change in temp around the globe - environments are changing in significant ways. 97 out of 100 climate experts agree humans are causing global warming. What are we going to expect in the gta. Snowfall & rainfall -- less snow & more rain in winter. E. g. heavy rain, flash floods, high winds. Damage to urban trees from insect pests & storms. Two of the biggest effect of climate change occuring in canada and toronto are: The boreal forest in alberta -- fires near fort mcmurray. Severely impacted by climate change b/c its used to cool temps now it"s drier. May 1st 2016 -- small fire outside of fort mcmurray -- team employed to take on this wildfire and 2 hrs later fire expanded (illustrates how dry conditions were in. May) - a week after it started, fire grown to 200,000 hectares.
